CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-62706

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.46%

38th percentile - higher than 38% of all known CVEs

Summary

Authlib is a Python library for building OAuth and OpenID Connect servers. Prior to version 1.6.5, Authlib's JWE zip=DEF path performs unbounded DEFLATE decompression, allowing an attacker to exhaust memory and CPU and cause denial of service.

Risk Assessment

An attacker able to supply decryptable tokens can exhaust server resources, causing denial of service for applications using Authlib.

Recommendation

Update Authlib to version 1.6.5 or later. As a workaround, reject or strip zip=DEF for inbound JWEs and enforce strict token size limits and rate limiting.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS