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AIOHTTP vulnerable to denial of service through large payloads

GHSA-6jhg-hg63-jvvf · CVE-2025-69228

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Description

Summary

A request can be crafted in such a way that an aiohttp server's memory fills up uncontrollably during processing.

Impact

If an application includes a handler that uses the Request.post() method, an attacker may be able to freeze the server by exhausting the memory.


Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/b7dbd35375aedbcd712cbae8ad513d56d11cce60

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