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python-urllib3 vulnerabilities

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Yu-Fu Fu, Seth Larson and Yonatan Magier discovered that urllib3 did not correctly handle certain certificate validations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to observe or modify forwarded traffic. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-97687) Martin Desrumaux discovered that urllib3 did not correctly handle decoding certain deflate responses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-97688) It was discovered that urllib3 did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-97689)

Products
python-urllib3
Affected versions
1.21.1-1, 1.22-1, 1.22-1ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1.22-1ubuntu0.18.04.2, 1.22-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm1, 1.22-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm2, 1.22-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm3, 1.22-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm4, 1.24.1-1ubuntu1, 1.24.1-1ubuntu2, 1.25.8-1, 1.25.8-2, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.1, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.2, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.3, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4+esm1, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4+esm2, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4+esm3, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4+esm4, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4+esm5, 1.26.16-1, 1.26.18-1, 1.26.5-1~exp1, 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.1, 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.2, 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.3, 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.4, 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.5, 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.6, 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.7, 2.0.7-1, 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.1, 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.2, 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.3, 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.4, 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.5, 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.6, 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.7, 2.3.0-3, 2.5.0-1, 2.5.0-1ubuntu1, 2.5.0-1ubuntu2, 2.6.3-1ubuntu1, 2.6.3-1ubuntu1.1
Fixed versions
1.22-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm5, 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4+esm6, 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.8, 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.8, 2.6.3-1ubuntu1.2
CVEs
CVE-2026-97687, CVE-2026-97688, CVE-2026-97689
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 03:36 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

python-urllib3 vulnerabilities

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Oct 2026, 06:23 UTC

Yu-Fu Fu, Seth Larson and Yonatan Magier discovered that urllib3 did not correctly handle certain certificate validations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to observe or modify forwarded traffic. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-97687) Martin Desrumaux discovered that urllib3 did not correctly handle decoding certain deflate responses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-97688) It was discovered that urllib3 did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-97689)

osv:USN-8926-1

python-urllib3

Fixed versions: 1.22-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm5

python-urllib3

Fixed versions: 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.4+esm6

python-urllib3

Fixed versions: 1.26.5-1~exp1ubuntu0.8

python-urllib3

Fixed versions: 2.0.7-1ubuntu0.8

python-urllib3

Fixed versions: 2.6.3-1ubuntu1.2

Complete source record
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  "published_at": "2026-10-14T06:23:09+00:00"
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