AIOHTTP vulnerable to denial of service through large payloads
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 5 fixed, 7 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Versions 3.13.2 and below allow a request to be crafted in such a way that an AIOHTTP server's memory fills up uncontrollably during processing. If an application includes a handler that uses the Request.post() method, an attacker may be able to freeze the server by exhausting the memory. This issue is fixed in version 3.13.3.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aio-libs | aiohttp | before 3.13.3 | 3.13.3 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | aiohttp (PyPI) | before 3.13.3 | 3.13.3 | Patch available | GHSA-6jhg-hg63-jvvf |
- aiohttp Vendoraio-libs Affected before 3.13.3 Fixed in 3.13.3 Patch available CNA
- aiohttp (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 3.13.3 Fixed in 3.13.3 Patch available GHSA-6jhg-hg63-jvvf
Remediation
- Fix · CNA aiohttp (aio-libs) Fixed in 3.13.3
- Fix · GHSA-6jhg-hg63-jvvf aiohttp (PyPI) Fixed in 3.13.3 Advisory →
Red Hat 12 advisories
- RHSA-2026:59155 Released 2026-08-24 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Container Release Update
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-supported-rhel9 +5
- RHSA-2026:55853 Released 2026-08-17 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Update
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.18 registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel8
- RHSA-2026:55852 Released 2026-08-17 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Update
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.18 registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9
Show 9 more Red Hat advisories
- RHSA-2026:42644 Released 2026-07-21 · Red Hat rating ImportantRHOAI 2.25.9 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-caikit-tgis-serving-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-kserve-storage-initializer-rhel9 +36
- RHSA-2026:41928 Released 2026-07-20 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers
- Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8 registry.redhat.io/rhmtc/openshift-migration-controller-rhel8, registry.redhat.io/rhmtc/openshift-migration-hook-runner-rhel8, registry.redhat.io/rhmtc/openshift-migration-log-reader-rhel8 +6
- RHSA-2026:24977 Released 2026-06-10 · Red Hat rating ImportantRHOAI 2.25.7 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-caikit-nlp-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-caikit-tgis-serving-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9 +34
- RHSA-2026:13545 Released 2026-05-04 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Container Release Update
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-26/ansible-dev-tools-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9 +11
- RHSA-2026:10184 Released 2026-04-23 · Red Hat rating ImportantRHOAI 2.25.5 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-caikit-nlp-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-caikit-tgis-serving-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9 +47
- RHSA-2026:6762 Released 2026-04-07 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat AI Inference Server 3.2.2 (ROCm)
- Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 registry.redhat.io/rhaiis/vllm-rocm-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:6761 Released 2026-04-07 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat AI Inference Server Model Optimization Tools 3.2.2 (CUDA)
- Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 registry.redhat.io/rhaiis/model-opt-cuda-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:5809 Released 2026-03-25 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat AI Inference Server 3.2.2 (cuda-ubi9)
- Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 registry.redhat.io/rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:3782 Released 2026-03-04 · Red Hat rating CriticalRHOAI 2.25.3 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-caikit-tgis-serving-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-codeflare-operator-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9 +27
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| OpenShift Lightspeed | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenShift Service Mesh 2 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat AI Inference Server | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:5809, RHSA-2026:6761, RHSA-2026:6762 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.18 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:55852, RHSA-2026:55853 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:13545, RHSA-2026:59155 |
| Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:41928 |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:10184, RHSA-2026:24977, RHSA-2026:3782, RHSA-2026:42644 |
Not affected: 6 products
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2
- Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8
- Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
- Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-69228
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6jhg-hg63-jvvf
- 2026-10-09 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 Fix available: RHSA-2026:42644 · Red Hat
References
More aio-libs vulnerabilities
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- TI-2024-15436 aiohttp.web.static(follow_symlinks=True) is vulnerable to directory traversal CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-25769 Request smuggling in aiohttp CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-18906 aiohttp vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-26746 aiohttp's ClientSession is vulnerable to CRLF injection via version CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-66145 Multidict: Reference leak in CIMultiDict/MultiDict items-view union and subtraction CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2025-69228 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-69228 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-6jhg-hg63-jvvf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-69228 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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