Bug 2411734 - CVE-2025-6176 python-scrapy: Brotli decompression bomb DoS in scrapy/scrapy [fedora-42]
Summary: CVE-2025-6176 python-scrapy: Brotli decompression bomb DoS in scrapy/scrapy [...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python-scrapy
Version: 42
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
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Assignee: Eduardo Echeverria
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["5111d55a-92f4-40bf-87ee-f...
Depends On: 2368928
Blocks: CVE-2025-6176
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-11-01 14:12 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2025-12-10 12:36 UTC (History)
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Description Sandipan Roy 2025-11-01 14:12:44 UTC 
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Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2025-12-10 12:36:43 UTC 
Updating brotli to 1.2.0 will expose the Python APIs necessary to mitigate this in scrapy. The actual fix will then be updating python-scrapy to 2.13.4, https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/news.html#scrapy-2-13-4-2025-11-17.
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