Resource Exhaustion Affecting python-scrapy package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-PYTHONSCRAPY-13797121
  • published1 Nov 2025
  • disclosed31 Oct 2025

Introduced: 31 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-6176  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:13 python-scrapy.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-scrapy package and not the python-scrapy package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.