Vulnerability · Published Jan 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-69229AIOHTTP vulnerable to DoS through chunked messages

Medium 6.6

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in aiohttp from aio-libs. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 35% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 4.0)6.6Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 65.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. In versions 3.13.2 and below, handling of chunked messages can result in excessive blocking CPU usage when receiving a large number of chunks. If an application makes use of the request.read() method in an endpoint, it may be possible for an attacker to cause the server to spend a moderate amount of blocking CPU time (e.g. 1 second) while processing the request. This could potentially lead to DoS as the server would be unable to handle other requests during that time. This issue is fixed in version 3.13.3.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.23py3-aiohttp3.13.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2025-69229
Alpine:v3.24py3-aiohttp3.13.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2025-69229
Debian:12python-aiohttp3.8.4-1+deb12u2DEBIAN-CVE-2025-69229
Debian:13python-aiohttp3.11.16-1+deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-69229
Debian:14python-aiohttp3.13.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-69229
PyPIaiohttp3.13.3PYSEC-2026-1106
PyPIaiohttp3.13.3GHSA-g84x-mcqj-x9qq
Ubuntu:25.10python-aiohttp3.11.16-1ubuntu0.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-69229

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
aio-libs aiohttp < 3.13.3

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

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