CVE-2025-30160 (GCVE-0-2025-30160)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-20 18:09 – Updated: 2025-03-20 19:19
VLAI
Title
Redlib allows a Denial of Service via DEFLATE Decompression Bomb in restore_preferences Form
Summary
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.
Severity
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-20 19:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 8129 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
redlib-org redlib Affected: < 0.36.0
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