Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
AnyIO versions before 4.14.2 are affected. Process-pool workers do not redirect stderr, so worker code that writes enough data to stderr can fill the pipe and block the awaiting process-pool call indefinitely. The source gives few details on who can trigger this beyond running untrusted or faulty code. Upgrade to anyio 4.14.2, which contains the fix.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.8 | Medium | 4.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | CNA (GitHub_M) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0016, the 4th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp
- OSV: GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp
- github.com/agronholm/anyio/security/advisories/GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp
- github.com/agronholm/anyio/pull/1207
- github.com/agronholm/anyio/commit/f1b7301c8264b0d2e8d24a5788fd29e93dea4040
- github.com/agronholm/anyio
- github.com/agronholm/anyio/releases/tag/4.14.2