Resource exhaustion in aiohttp - CVE-2026-69244

 

Resource exhaustion in aiohttp - CVE-2026-69244

Published: July 28, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU139893
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-69244
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in C HTTP response parser. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

aiohttp
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
Public Cloud Module
Python 3 Module
openSUSE Leap
Fedora
python311-aiohttp
python-aiohttp-debugsource
python311-aiohttp-debuginfo
python-aiohttp

How to mitigate CVE-2026-69244

Install updates from vendor's website.

aiohttp - update to 3.14.3
python311-aiohttp - update to 3.9.3-150400.10.46.1
python-aiohttp-debugsource - update to 3.9.3-150400.10.46.1
python311-aiohttp-debuginfo - update to 3.9.3-150400.10.46.1
python-aiohttp - addressed in versions 3.14.3-3.fc45, 3.14.3-3.fc46

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