CVE-2025-6176
HIGHScrapy < 2.13.4 - Denial of Service via Brotli Decompression Bomb
Title source: llmDescription
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
Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://huntr.com/bounties/2c26a886-5984-47ee-a421-0d5fe1344eb0
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