Bug 2405946 (CVE-2025-62706) - CVE-2025-62706 authlib: Authlib : JWE zip=DEF decompression bomb enables DoS
Summary: CVE-2025-62706 authlib: Authlib : JWE zip=DEF decompression bomb enables DoS
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-62706
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-22 22:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-12 10:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-22 22:01:56 UTC
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.


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