pydantic-ai: Pydantic AI: Unbounded memory use when downloading remote content via web_fetch or FileUrl
What fixes it
- 1.107.2pydantic-ai, pipGitHub
- 2.24.0pydantic-ai, pipGitHub
- 1.107.2pydantic-ai-slim, pipGitHub
- 2.24.0pydantic-ai-slim, pipGitHub
- 1.107.2pydantic-ai, PyPIOSV
pip install "pydantic-ai>=1.107.2" - 2.24.0pydantic-ai, PyPIOSV
pip install "pydantic-ai>=2.24.0"
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A fixed version on one release line is not the upgrade target for every line. Check your exact version and any vendor backports.
Description
Summary
Several remote-content download paths in Pydantic AI buffered the entire HTTP response body into memory before enforcing any size limit. An application that exposes the local web-fetch tool (web_fetch_tool, or the WebFetch capability's local fallback) to untrusted prompts can be driven to fetch an attacker-chosen URL that streams a very large body, exhausting process memory and crashing the worker. The same unbounded buffering applied to FileUrl media downloads (ImageUrl, DocumentUrl, VideoUrl, AudioUrl).
This is an availability issue only. SSRF protections (scheme allowlist, private-IP and cloud-metadata blocking) are unaffected; there is no confidentiality or integrity impact.
Details
The download helpers read the full response body before applying content-size controls, so an existing text-length limit only truncated *after* the whole body was already in memory, and media downloads had no wire-level cap at all. A single large response could grow process memory without bound .
Who Is Affected
You are affected if your application registers the local web-fetch tool (or relies on the WebFetch capability's local fallback) and exposes the agent to untrusted prompts, or if it downloads large remote FileUrls influenced by untrusted input. Applications that only fetch developer-controlled URLs are not exposed to the model-chosen attack path.
Remediation
Upgrade to 2.24.0 or later (v2) or 1.107.2 or later (v1). Patched versions enforce a default 50 MiB cap on web-fetch and FileUrl downloads while streaming; pass None to the limit to restore the previous unbounded behavior.
Credits
Identified during internal review of media-download hardening.
Text from GitHub Advisory Database
Affected versions 156
- pydantic-ai, pip>= 1.77.0, < 1.107.2GitHub
- pydantic-ai, pip>= 2.0.0b1, <= 2.23.0GitHub
- pydantic-ai-slim, pip>= 1.77.0, < 1.107.2GitHub
- pydantic-ai-slim, pip>= 2.0.0b1, <= 2.23.0GitHub
- pydantic-aiaffected: >= 1.77.0, < 1.107.2CVE List
- pydantic-aiaffected: >= 2.0.0b1, < 2.24.0CVE List
- pydantic-ai-slimaffected: >= 1.77.0, < 1.107.2CVE List
- pydantic-ai-slimaffected: >= 2.0.0b1, < 2.24.0CVE List
- pydantic-ai, PyPIfrom 1.77.0, fixed in 1.107.2OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.100.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.101.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.102.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.103.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.104.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.105.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.106.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.107.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.107.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.77.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.78.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.79.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.80.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.81.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.82.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.83.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.84.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.84.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.85.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.85.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.86.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.86.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.87.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.88.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.89.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.89.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.90.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.91.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.92.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.93.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.94.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.95.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.95.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.96.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.96.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.97.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.98.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI1.99.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPIfrom 2.0.0b1, fixed in 2.24.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.0.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.0.0b1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.0.0b2OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.0.0b3OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.0.0b4OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.0.0b5OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.0.0b6OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.0.0b7OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.1.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.10.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.11.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.12.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.13.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.14.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.14.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.15.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.16.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.17.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.18.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.19.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.2.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.20.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.21.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.22.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.23.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.3.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.4.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.5.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.5.1OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.6.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.7.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.8.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.9.0OSV
- pydantic-ai, PyPI2.9.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPIfrom 1.77.0, fixed in 1.107.2OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.100.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.101.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.102.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.103.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.104.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.105.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.106.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.107.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.107.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.77.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.78.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.79.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.80.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.81.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.82.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.83.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.84.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.84.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.85.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.85.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.86.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.86.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.87.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.88.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.89.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.89.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.90.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.91.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.92.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.93.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.94.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.95.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.95.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.96.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.96.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.97.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.98.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI1.99.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPIfrom 2.0.0b1, fixed in 2.24.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.0.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.0.0b1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.0.0b2OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.0.0b3OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.0.0b4OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.0.0b5OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.0.0b6OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.0.0b7OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.1.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.10.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.11.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.12.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.13.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.14.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.14.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.15.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.16.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.17.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.18.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.19.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.2.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.20.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.21.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.22.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.23.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.3.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.4.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.5.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.5.1OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.6.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.7.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.8.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.9.0OSV
- pydantic-ai-slim, PyPI2.9.1OSV
References 8
- github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/commit/7a64d049c3f5271a975cd1d64b2fa876d83ede1dFixvia CVE List
- github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/commit/e3824a58c82864ed26afb2887619834a4eb86cc8Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v1.107.2Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/releases/tag/v2.24.0Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/security/advisories/GHSA-v2xh-2vp8-57h8Advisoryvia CVE List
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2xh-2vp8-57h8Advisoryvia GitHub
- github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/7141Referencevia CVE List
- github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pull/7308Referencevia CVE List