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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-48809 EUVD-2026-56854GHSA-m9gh-vj53-gvh9PYSEC-2026-3033

python-engineio has possible denial of service due to maximum payload size sometimes not being enforced

Published Aug 11, 2026 · Updated Aug 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

python-engineio is a Python implementation of the Engine.IO realtime client and server. Versions prior to 4.13.2 have two specific configurations of the python-engineio server in which the size of incoming messages is not checked before the messages are loaded into memory. An attacker can take advantage of these to cause unnecessary memory allocations in the python-engineio server. The two cases are POST requests, when using ASGI with the long polling transport and WebSocket messages, when using Aiohttp with the WebSocket transport. Version 4.13.2 addresses this issue. ASGI severs now only load the body of incoming requests into memory after the client is confirmed to be known and authenticated, and the payload size is below the maximum allowed size. Requests that do not comply with these requirements are discarded. Aiohttp servers configure the maximum payload size in the underlying WebSocket layer from Aiohttp, so that large messages are discarded by Aiohttp before they are delivered to python-engineio.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
miguelgrinberg python-engineio < 4.13.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 python-engineio 4.14.0-1 —
Debian 13 python-engineio No fix yet —
Debian 12 python-engineio No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-engineio No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-engineio No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS python-engineio No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS python-engineio No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS python-engineio No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS python-engineio No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 python-python-engineio 4.3.4-150600.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3085-1
SLES 3 python-python-engineio 4.3.4-150600.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3085-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 python-python-engineio 4.3.4-150600.3.3.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3085-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-python-engineio 4.13.3-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11170-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 python-python-engineio 4.12.0-bp160.2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21182-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI python-engineio < 4.13.2 4.13.2 GHSA-m9gh-vj53-gvh9

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