Medium [CVE-2026-54273] Denial of Service via excessive pipelined requests
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-54273 affecting Exploit Intelligence, Migration Toolkit for Applications 8, OpenShift Lightspeed.
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Summary
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to 3.14.1, no limit was present on the number of pipelined requests that could be queued.
An attacker may be able to use pipelined requests to use excessive amounts of memory, potentially leading to DoS. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.14.1.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending an unlimited number of pipelined requests, causing the system to consume excessive amounts of memory. This could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS), making the affected system unavailable to legitimate users.
This vulnerability is rated Moderate because an unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger denial of service against an affected aiohttp HTTP/1 server by sending a large number of pipelined requests, causing excessive memory consumption. Exploitation requires aiohttp to be deployed as an HTTP/1 server that accepts pipelined requests from untrusted clients.
Many Red Hat products ship aiohttp as a bundled dependency for client libraries, internal automation, or services that do not expose this server behavior to untrusted users. In those configurations, practical risk may be lower, but affected packages should still be updated to aiohttp 3.14.1 or later when fixes are released.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.9 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-770.
- < 3.14.1
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Mitigation checklist
- Update the aiohttp package to version 3.14.1 or later. Until updated builds are available for a given product, reduce exposure by not exposing aiohttp-based HTTP/1 servers directly to untrusted networks. A reverse proxy in front of the service can help limit abusive pipelined request patterns. Installations that use aiohttp only as an HTTP client, or that do not accept HTTP/1 pipelined requests on an aiohttp server, are not affected by this flaw.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source
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