Bug 2527694 (CVE-2026-84378) - CVE-2026-84378 httpx2: HTTPX2: Denial of Service via crafted Server-Sent Events stream
Summary: CVE-2026-84378 httpx2: HTTPX2: Denial of Service via crafted Server-Sent Even...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-84378
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-09-02 18:10 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-02 18:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-02 18:10:51 UTC
HTTPX2 is a next generation HTTP client for Python. From 2.5.0 until 2.10.0, the HTTPX2 Server-Sent Events parser in src/httpx2/httpx2/_sse.py repeatedly copies and rescans buffered text in _SSELineDecoder.decode() when an attacker-controlled or compromised SSE endpoint splits one unterminated line across many response chunks. The behavior affects httpx2.Client.sse() and httpx2.AsyncClient.sse(), and the total processing work grows quadratically with the line length, allowing a crafted stream to consume excessive CPU and block a synchronous worker or asynchronous event loop. This issue is fixed in version 2.10.0.


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