AIOHTTP: Host-Only Cookies Become Domain Cookies After CookieJar Persistence
Priority LOW 9CWE-665Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to 3.14.1, host-only cookies that are saved with CookieJar.save() and then restored later with CookieJar.load() lose their host-only status. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.14.1.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00493 42nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed aiohttp (aio-libs): 3.14.1aiohttp (PyPI): 3.14.1
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- 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 3.14.1 | 3.14.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | aiohttp (PyPI) | before 3.14.1 | 3.14.1 | Patch available | GHSA-2fqr-mr3j-6wp8 |
- aiohttp Vendoraio-libs Affected before 3.14.1 Fixed in 3.14.1 Patch available CNA
- aiohttp (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 3.14.1 Fixed in 3.14.1 Patch available GHSA-2fqr-mr3j-6wp8
Remediation
- Fix · CNA aiohttp (aio-libs) Fixed in 3.14.1
- Fix · GHSA-2fqr-mr3j-6wp8 aiohttp (PyPI) Fixed in 3.14.1 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 12 products
- Exploit Intelligence
- Migration Toolkit for Applications 8
- OpenShift Lightspeed
- Red Hat AI Inference Server
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2
- Red Hat Discovery 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
- Red Hat Satellite 6
- Red Hat Update Infrastructure 4 for Cloud Providers
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-54279
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2fqr-mr3j-6wp8
- 2026-11-03 CVSS score changed · GHSA-2fqr-mr3j-6wp8
- 2026-11-03 3 new references · GHSA-2fqr-mr3j-6wp8
References
Advisory 2
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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-2026-54279 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-54279 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-2fqr-mr3j-6wp8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-54279 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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