High severity8.7NVD Advisory· Published Oct 19, 2026· Updated Nov 9, 2026
aiohttp: Multiple instances of excessive or unbounded memory/CPU use
CVE-2026-123817
Description
Summary
While reassembling a WebSocket frame that arrived across many small transport reads, the reader kept one bytes object per read with no bound on the count. The per-object overhead is many times larger than the payload bytes, so a frame delivered a few bytes at a time could use far more memory than max_msg_size allows.
Impact
An attacker could cause excessive memory use in a WebSocket server, or a malicious server against a client, by sending a frame in a large number of tiny segments.
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Affected products
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References
14- github.com/advisories/GHSA-2g87-pp6c-29x5ghsaADVISORY
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/09bcaa73ff084a0c539bbf16a0a78743acb7141fghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/0ae507423f681161efa77d20052b4054397c7fb6ghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/3d850ee9b92573c7e913821cbcb96005beb3f4dfghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/47babd8c23ca79e2bae6cc8dcb5752b61e369fc7ghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/615fec3d4f088f30d2ee72cad760152e92aa1c53ghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/6963ee0befec1502b6bb7b4db6c72d044c08f4faghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/6a4f6682817839313b04b8e5cea2b39c1a88ab4fghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/8cfbe9abe5e11b84006a10f9bdf82bf607671dabghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/a555ab698e08e9baea7386d5b4c0761cb8956fddghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/c6ac0e44c3c573ff9616f4a6a532992538b31e43ghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/d925a80539ffd227da1d93ab4a5bff123cc777dbghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/releases/tag/v3.14.4ghsa
- github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/security/advisories/GHSA-2g87-pp6c-29x5ghsa
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