CVE-2025-6176

HIGH

Scrapy < 2.13.4 - Denial of Service via Brotli Decompression Bomb

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (3)
pypi/brotli 0 - 1.2.0PyPI
pypi/Scrapy 0 - 2.13.4PyPI
scrapy/scrapy/scrapy unspecified - latest
Published Oct 31, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026