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.
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First Time appeared Scrapy
Scrapy scrapy
Vendors & Products Scrapy
Scrapy scrapy

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Description 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.
Title Brotli decompression bomb DoS in scrapy/scrapy
Weaknesses CWE-400
References
Metrics cvssV3_0

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: @huntr_ai

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-31T00:00:21.219Z

Reserved: 2025-06-16T15:14:45.766Z

Link: CVE-2025-6176

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-10-31T00:15:37.333

Modified: 2025-10-31T00:15:37.333

Link: CVE-2025-6176

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Updated: 2025-10-31T10:12:49Z