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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-48484 EUVD-2026-95910GHSA-vq8p-m3wm-gv5fPYSEC-2026-4293

pyLoad: Lack of Input Size Validation Leads to Denial of Service (DoS) and Process Termination

Published Oct 9, 2026 · Updated Oct 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to 0.5.0b3.dev101, the API `rpc` function in `api_blueprint.py` handles `multipart/form-data` uploads by reading the whole content of the uploaded file into memory with `file.read()`. This occurs before the data is sent to the underlying function. Since there is no size limit set at this point, a large file upload can exhaust the server's available memory which led to process termination. Version 0.5.0b3.dev101 contains a patch.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pyload pyload < 0.5.0b3.dev101 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pyload-ng < 0.5.0b3.dev101 0.5.0b3.dev101 GHSA-vq8p-m3wm-gv5f

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