CVE-2025-30160CWE-400CWE-502

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

High · published March 20, 2025

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
46.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00578 · 46.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2025-03-20T18:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAR 18:09Z
    Redlib allows a Denial of Service via DEFLATE Decompression Bomb in restore_preferences Form
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