CVE-2025-6176

🔴 HIGH

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...

Published
Oct 31, 2025
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Nov 04, 2025
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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.

CVSS Scores

CVSS 3.1 7.5
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 2.0 7.5

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Source
security@huntr.dev
State
Awaiting analysis

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