CVE-2026-64847 PUBLISHED

AnyIO process-pool workers can block indefinitely on undrained stderr

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.07.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

AnyIO is a high level asynchronous concurrency and networking framework that works on top of either Trio or asyncio. Prior to 4.14.2, AnyIO starts process-pool workers with standard error connected to a pipe that the parent never drains, even though the documented behavior redirects all three standard streams. Worker code that writes enough attacker-influenced data to sys.stderr can fill the pipe and block before returning the standard-output protocol response, causing the awaiting process-pool call to remain blocked indefinitely. Applications that run untrusted or faulty worker code capable of producing substantial standard-error output are affected. This issue is fixed in version 4.14.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: 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
CVSS Score: 6.8

Product Status

Vendor agronholm
Product anyio
Versions
  • Version < 4.14.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE