CVE-2025-66418 Detail
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This CVE record has recently been published to the CVE List and has been included within the NVD dataset. Descriptionurllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.24 and prior to 2.6.0, the number of links in the decompression chain was unbounded allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps leading to high CPU usage and massive memory allocation for the decompressed data. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.0. Metrics
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Quick InfoCVE Dictionary Entry:CVE-2025-66418 NVD Published Date: 12/05/2025 NVD Last Modified: 12/05/2025 Source: GitHub, Inc. |
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