Authlib : JWE zip=DEF decompression bomb enables DoS_CVE-2025-62706

6.5 / 10

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Authlib is a Python library which builds OAuth and OpenID Connect servers. Prior to version 1.6.5, Authlib’s JWE zip=DEF path performs unbounded DEFLATE decompression. A very small ciphertext can expand into tens or hundreds of megabytes on decrypt, allowing an attacker who can supply decryptable tokens to exhaust memory and CPU and cause denial of service. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.5. Workarounds for this issue involve rejecting or stripping zip=DEF for inbound JWEs at the application boundary, forking and add a bounded decompression guard via decompressobj().decompress(data, MAX_SIZE)) and returning an error when output exceeds a safe limit, or enforcing strict maximum token sizes and fail fast on oversized inputs; combine with rate limiting.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-62706

Source GitHub_M

Published Oct 22, 2025 at 21:31

Affected Product

Vendor authlib

Product authlib

Version < 1.6.5

Affected Versions authlib authlib < 1.6.5

CWE Classification

CWE-400 CWE-770

References

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