CVE-2025-6176 (GCVE-0-2025-6176)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-31 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-31 16:21
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Brotli decompression bomb DoS in scrapy/scrapy
Summary
Scrapy versions up to 2.13.2 are vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack due to a flaw in its brotli decompression implementation. The protection mechanism against decompression bombs fails to mitigate the brotli variant, allowing remote servers to crash clients with less than 80GB of available memory. This occurs because brotli can achieve extremely high compression ratios for zero-filled data, leading to excessive memory consumption during decompression.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-31 16:15 UTC
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scrapy | scrapy/scrapy |
Affected:
unspecified , ≤ latest
(custom)
|
guessed |
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