CVE-2025-13836

Excessive read buffering DoS in http.client

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.3
EPSS
EPSS 1.63 % · percentile 76 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
PSF
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

When reading an HTTP response from a server, if no read amount is specified, the default behavior will be to use Content-Length. This allows a malicious server to cause the client to read large amounts of data into memory, potentially causing OOM or other DoS.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:LPSF
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · cna@python.org (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Python Software Foundation · CPythonaffected 0 < 3.10.20 ; affected 3.11.0 < 3.11.15 ; affected 3.12.0 < 3.12.13 ; affected 3.13.0 < 3.13.11 ; affected 3.14.0 < 3.14.1 ; affected 3.15.0a1 < 3.15.0a3

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD