Amazon Linux 2027 Preview Security Advisory: ALAS2027-2026-008
Advisory Release Date: 2026-09-18 09:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2026-09-18 09:00 Pacific
urllib3 version 2.6.3 is vulnerable to a decompression bomb bypass in its streaming API (`preload_content=False`) when using Brotli support. The issue arises due to three independent code paths in `response.py` that bypass the `max_length` protection introduced in version 2.6.0 to mitigate CVE-2025-66471. Specifically, negative `max_length` values can be produced due to buffer arithmetic in `read()`, `flush_decoder` unconditionally overrides `max_length` to `-1`, and `_flush_decoder()` passes no limit at all, defaulting to unlimited decompression. This allows a malicious HTTP server to trigger an out-of-memory (OOM) condition by decompressing large payloads into memory, leading to a denial of service (DoS). The vulnerability affects urllib3 2.6.3 and Brotli 1.2.0 and impacts applications and libraries using `requests` or `urllib3` to stream content from untrusted sources. (CVE-2026-9375)
Affected Packages:
python-urllib3
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-urllib3 to update your system.
noarch:
python3-urllib3-2.6.3-1.amzn2027.0.2.noarch
src:
python-urllib3-2.6.3-1.amzn2027.0.2.src