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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-61541 EUVD-2026-84182GHSA-5vjj-2r48-q622PYSEC-2026-4181

Zapros has an Unbounded Content-Encoding decompression chain that allows denial of service

Published Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Zapros, a Python HTTP client, prior to version 0.14.0 is vulnerable to denial of service when an application requests content from an untrusted server, or follows a redirect to one, because a malicious response containing an excessive number of chained `Content-Encoding` values causes Zapros to construct a deeply nested decompression chain that consumes excessive resources. Version 0.14.0 patches the vulnerability by limiting responses to five content-encoding layers and raising `DecodingError` when that limit is exceeded. As a workaround, applications can add response middleware that inspects the `Content-Encoding` header and rejects responses containing more than a safe number of encoding layers.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kap-sh zapros < 0.14.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI zapros < 0.14.0 0.14.0 GHSA-5vjj-2r48-q622

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