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High · 8.7 CVE-2025-30160 EUVD-2025-7180GHSA-g8vq-v3mg-7mrg

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

Published Mar 20, 2025 · Updated Mar 20, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
redlib-org redlib < 0.36.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io redlib < 0.36.0 0.36.0 GHSA-g8vq-v3mg-7mrg

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