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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                    Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:15:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added | 
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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 
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 MITRE
                        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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                        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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                        OpenCVE Enrichment
                    Updated: 2025-10-31T10:12:49Z