Resource Exhaustion Affecting brotli-devel package, versions <0:1.0.9-9.el9_7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY9-BROTLIDEVEL-15248267
  • published8 Feb 2026
  • disclosed31 Oct 2025

Introduced: 31 Oct 2025

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:9 brotli-devel to version 0:1.0.9-9.el9_7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2026:2042.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream brotli-devel package and not the brotli-devel package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:9 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1