USN-8344-1 introduced a regression in pip. This update provides a complete fix for this issue..
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that pip's bundled urllib3 library improperly handled streaming decompression of highly compressed data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause pip to consume excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2025-66471)
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