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CVE-2026-61541: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in kap-sh zapros

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-61541cvecve-2026-61541cwe-770
Published: 09/21/2026 (09/21/2026, 21:21:21 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: kap-sh
Product: zapros

Description

Zapros, a Python HTTP client, prior to version 0.14.0 is vulnerable to denial of service when an application requests content from an untrusted server, or follows a redirect to one, because a malicious response containing an excessive number of chained `Content-Encoding` values causes Zapros to construct a deeply nested decompression chain that consumes excessive resources. Version 0.14.0 patches the vulnerability by limiting responses to five content-encoding layers and raising `DecodingError` when that limit is exceeded. As a workaround, applications can add response middleware that inspects the `Content-Encoding` header and rejects responses containing more than a safe number of encoding layers.

CVSS v4.0

Score 6.9medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
None
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
Low
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected software

kap-sh

zapros

Affected versions
<0.14.0

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-07-10T16:27:03.093Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6ab1a26455bf5e2cf580011f

Added to database: 09/21/2026, 21:32:20 UTC

Last updated: 09/21/2026, 21:32:20 UTC

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