Bug 2431307 - CVE-2026-21441 python-urllib3: urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API) [fedora-42]
Summary: CVE-2026-21441 python-urllib3: urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeg...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python-urllib3
Version: 42
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Python Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-21441
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Reported: 2026-01-20 19:01 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2026-02-26 11:22 UTC (History)
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2026-01-20 19:01:18 UTC
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Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2026-01-20 21:43:06 UTC
Per https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-21441, this is fixed in 2.6.3 and later. Fedora 43 has 2.3.0, so it is affected. The fix is compact, but it’s hard to be confident backporting it across several releases, especially considering possible interactions with fixes for CVE-2025-66471. An update may be possible, but includes new nontrivial dependencies. See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-urllib3/pull-request/49 for discussion.

Comment 2 Lumír Balhar 2026-02-26 11:22:36 UTC
I'm afraid we won't be able to fix this before Fedora 42 goes EOL in May.


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