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SCA: security update for httplib2 (GHSA-j5g9-f88f-gfj3)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 445309

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 0.32.0, httplib2 performs unbounded
 decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip or deflate in _decompressContent
 in httplib2/init.py, allowing a malicious or compromised HTTP server to return a small compressed payload
 that expands to an arbitrarily large size in memory and causes MemoryError or OOM-kill in the client
 process. This issue is fixed in version 0.32.0. (CVE-2026-59939)

Solution

Update the httplib2 library and its related packages to version 0.32.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j5g9-f88f-gfj3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445309

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/24/2026

Updated: 7/24/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-59939

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59939