CVE-2025-69230 AIOHTTP Vulnerable to Cookie Parser Warning Storm
Attackers can trigger a logging storm via crafted cookies, causing resource exhaustion in applications using the aiohttp library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-69230?
CVE-2025-69230 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in aio-libs aiohttp, published on 5 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. In versions 3.13.2 and below, reading multiple invalid cookies can lead to a logging storm. If the cookies attribute is accessed in an application, then an attacker may be able to trigger a storm of warning-level logs using a specially crafted Cookie header. This issue is fixed in 3.13.3.
Weakness: CWE-779
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-69230?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including aiohttp. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
aiohttp PyPI | All versions | 3.13.3 |
aiohttp PyPI | All versions | 3.13.3 |
aiohttp PyPI | All versions | 3.13.3 |
Products include Aiohttp Aiohttp.
How do I fix CVE-2025-69230?
Upgrade aiohttp to 3.13.3 or later.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-69230 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-69230 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in aio-libs aiohttp
- CVE-2024-52303 aiohttp memory leak when middleware is enabled when requesting a resource with a non-allowed method
- CVE-2025-69223 AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb
- CVE-2024-30251 Denial of service when trying to parse malformed POST requests in aiohttp
- CVE-2023-49081 aiohttp's ClientSession is vulnerable to CRLF injection via version
- CVE-2026-22815 AIOHTTP: Uncapped memory usage possible through aiohttp allowing unlimited trailer headers
Sources
Also known as CLEANSTART-2026-OX21990, CLEANSTART-2026-TW40339, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-69230, ECHO-ebe2-e1b5-8dbb, GHSA-fh55-r93g-j68g, MINI-8mx7-9m37-prgx and 4 more.