File CVE-2025-66418.patch of Package python-urllib3_1
From 24d7b67eac89f94e11003424bcf0d8f7b72222a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Illia Volochii <illia.volochii@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 16:41:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Merge commit from fork
* Add a hard-coded limit for the decompression chain
* Reuse new list
---
changelog/GHSA-gm62-xv2j-4w53.security.rst | 4 ++++
src/urllib3/response.py | 12 +++++++++++-
test/test_response.py | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 changelog/GHSA-gm62-xv2j-4w53.security.rst
Index: urllib3-1.26.20/changelog/GHSA-gm62-xv2j-4w53.security.rst
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ urllib3-1.26.20/changelog/GHSA-gm62-xv2j-4w53.security.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Fixed a security issue where an attacker could compose an HTTP response with
+virtually unlimited links in the ``Content-Encoding`` header, potentially
+leading to a denial of service (DoS) attack by exhausting system resources
+during decoding. The number of allowed chained encodings is now limited to 5.
Index: urllib3-1.26.20/src/urllib3/response.py
===================================================================
--- urllib3-1.26.20.orig/src/urllib3/response.py
+++ urllib3-1.26.20/src/urllib3/response.py
@@ -225,8 +225,18 @@ class MultiDecoder(object):
they were applied.
"""
- def __init__(self, modes):
- self._decoders = [_get_decoder(m.strip()) for m in modes.split(",")]
+ # Maximum allowed number of chained HTTP encodings in the
+ # Content-Encoding header.
+ max_decode_links = 5
+
+ def __init__(self, modes: str) -> None:
+ encodings = [m.strip() for m in modes.split(",")]
+ if len(encodings) > self.max_decode_links:
+ raise DecodeError(
+ "Too many content encodings in the chain: "
+ f"{len(encodings)} > {self.max_decode_links}"
+ )
+ self._decoders = [_get_decoder(e) for e in encodings]
def flush(self):
return self._decoders[0].flush()
Index: urllib3-1.26.20/test/test_response.py
===================================================================
--- urllib3-1.26.20.orig/test/test_response.py
+++ urllib3-1.26.20/test/test_response.py
@@ -477,6 +477,16 @@ class TestResponse(object):
assert r.data == b"foo"
+ def test_read_multi_decoding_too_many_links(self):
+ fp = BytesIO(b"foo")
+ with pytest.raises(
+ DecodeError, match="Too many content encodings in the chain: 6 > 5"
+ ):
+ HTTPResponse(
+ fp,
+ headers={"content-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br, zstd, gzip, deflate"},
+ )
+
def test_body_blob(self):
resp = HTTPResponse(b"foo")
assert resp.data == b"foo"