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CVE-2026-34517: AIOHTTP: Late size enforcement for non-file multipart fields causes memory DoS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-04-01 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to version 3.13.4, for some multipart form fields, aiohttp read the entire field into memory before checking client_max_size. This issue has been patched in version 3.13.4.

Affected products

• aio-libs aiohttp: before 3.13.4 — fixed in 3.13.4
• Pypi Aiohttp: before 3.13.4; 0.1, 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.11.0, 0.12.0 (+298) — fixed in 3.13.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: aio-libs aiohttp 3.13.4; Pypi Aiohttp 3.13.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/cbb774f38330563422ca0c413a71021d7b944145
• https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/releases/tag/v3.13.4
• https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/security/advisories/GHSA-3wq7-rqq7-wx6j

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