PyPI package
urllib3 vulnerabilities by version
The latest release, 2.8.0 (Sep 15, 2026), has no known vulnerabilities. 9 of the 10 most recent releases have known vulnerabilities. OSV.dev lists 22 advisories for urllib3; the newest was published on Sep 30, 2026.
PyPI (opens in a new tab) describes it as “HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.”
- Latest release
- 2.8.0
- Sep 15, 2026, no known vulnerabilities
- Downloads last week
- 341.6M
- All versions, from pypistats.org
- Advisories on OSV.dev
- 22
- Newest Sep 30, 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Recent releases
PyPI doesn’t publish downloads per version, so these are the newest releases, each checked against OSV.dev. Open a version for its advisories and what to upgrade to.
Release lines
The newest release of each minor line, from the registry. urllib3 doesn’t publish support dates we can check.
Newest advisories
The 5 most recently published, with the versions each one affects.
WarningCVE-2026-97688 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-gh4c-6fx4-qh6g
urllib3: Chunked Deflate streaming can enter an infinite loop
Affects >= 2.6.2, < 2.8.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.
CriticalCVE-2026-97689 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-vxq7-64xx-v4gw
urllib3: HTTPResponse.stream()/read_chunked() buffers an unbounded chunk-size line into memory
Affects >= 1.10.3, < 2.8.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.
CriticalCVE-2026-97687 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-8988-9cw3-xx77
urllib3: HTTPS proxy TLS configuration may be ignored or overridden
Affects >= 1.26.0, < 2.8.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.
CriticalCVE-2026-44432 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-mf9v-mfxr-j63j
urllib3: Decompression-bomb safeguards bypassed in parts of the streaming API
Affects >= 2.6.0, < 2.7.0. Published May 11, 2026.
CriticalCVE-2026-44431 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-qccp-gfcp-xxvc
urllib3: Sensitive headers forwarded across origins in proxied low-level redirects
Affects >= 1.23, < 2.7.0. Published May 11, 2026.
All 22 advisories are on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab).
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How this page is checked
StackPrism reads every OSV.dev advisory for urllib3, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and asks OSV.dev which ones affect each version listed. Releases and their dates come from deps.dev, downloads from pypistats.org. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.
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