CVE-2025-30160

Redlib allows a Denial of Service via DEFLATE Decompression Bomb in restore_preferences Form

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: Mar 20, 2025
Updated: Mar 20, 2025
Reserved: Mar 17, 2025

Description

Redlib is an alternative private front-end to Reddit. A vulnerability has been identified in Redlib where an attacker can cause a denial-of-service (DOS) condition by submitting a specially crafted base2048-encoded DEFLATE decompression bomb to the restore_preferences form. This leads to excessive memory consumption and potential system instability, which can be exploited to disrupt Redlib instances. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.36.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.7 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
redlibredlib-org	< 0.36.0Affected

References

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