1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
index 2f7dad7e82..67d76f75dd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/cve-update-nvd2-native.bb
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def nvd_request_next(url, api_key, args):
 
             if (r.headers['content-encoding'] == 'gzip'):
                 buf = r.read()
-                raw_data = gzip.decompress(buf)
+                raw_data = gzip.decompress(buf).decode("utf-8")
             else:
                 raw_data = r.read().decode("utf-8")