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When an application using Pydantic AI opts a URL into local network access — either a FileUrl with force_download='allow-local', or web_fetch_tool(allow_local_urls=True) — the cloud-metadata blocklist could be bypassed by appending an IPv6 zone identifier to a metadata address (for example fd00:ec2::254%251). The host ignores the zone identifier on a destination that is not link-local and delivers the request to the metadata endpoint anyway, exposing cloud IAM short-term credentials.

Pydantic AI: Concurrency-limited models can keep their slot when a streamed request ends early

The local web-fetch tool (web_fetch_tool, also used as the WebFetch capability's local fallback) processed responses with several steps whose running time grows quadratically with the size of certain server-controlled inputs, and ran them on the event loop: decoding the body with whichever charset the server declared, extracting the page title with a backtracking regular expression, and converting the HTML to markdown. An application that exposes this tool to untrusted prompts can be steered to fetch an attacker-controlled page of a megabyte or two that blocks the event loop for minutes, stalling every other coroutine in the process — other agent runs, other requests being served — for the duration.

Applications using Pydantic AI's local web-fetch tool can experience excessive CPU and memory use when it converts attacker-controlled HTML. An agent must fetch the affected page; provider-native web fetching is not affected.

Pydantic AI's OpenTelemetry instrumentation supports InstrumentationSettings(include_content=False) to exclude message content — user prompts, model completions, tool call arguments and responses, and any other message content — from exported telemetry, so that agents can be monitored without sending sensitive content to the observability backend.