Overview
About vulnerability
Summary
A request can be crafted in such a way that an aiohttp server’s memory fills up uncontrollably during processing.
Impact
If an application includes a handler that uses the Request.post() method, an attacker may be able to freeze the server by exhausting the memory.
Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/b7dbd35375aedbcd712cbae8ad513d56d11cce60
Details
- Affected product:
- aiohttp , apache-airflow-providers-http
- Affected packages:
- aiohttp @ 3.8.6 (+5 more)