CVE-2026-84382

high

Description

HTTPX2 is a next generation HTTP client for Python. Prior to 2.12.0, the HTTPX2 content decoders in src/httpx2/httpx2/_decoders.py fully inflate each gzip, deflate, br, or zstd network chunk before iter_bytes() or aiter_bytes() yields bounded pieces to the application. A 64 KiB compressed chunk can expand to approximately 64 MiB in one intermediate allocation, so an attacker-controlled or compromised server can cause severe memory pressure or out-of-memory process termination even when the application streams the response. This issue is fixed in version 2.12.0.

References

https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2/security/advisories/GHSA-8xx6-hgc6-gc2m

https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2/releases/tag/v2.12.0

https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2/pull/1126

https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2/commit/4fd0c70a3f207c618b145934792f791bccfb39f8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0035