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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2025-62706 EUVD-2025-33799GHSA-g7f3-828f-7h7mPYSEC-2026-1202

Authlib : JWE zip=DEF decompression bomb enables DoS

Published Oct 22, 2025 · Updated Nov 3, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
authlib authlib < 1.6.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 python-authlib 1.6.5-1 —
Debian 13 python-authlib 1.6.0-1+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 python-authlib 1.2.0-1+deb12u1 —
Debian 11 python-authlib 0.15.4-1+deb11u1 DLA-4352-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 python-authlib No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS python-authlib No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS python-authlib 1.3.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-8065-1
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS python-authlib 0.15.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-8065-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 3 python-Authlib 1.3.1-150600.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3842-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Authlib 1.9.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12390-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 python-Authlib 1.3.1-150600.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2025:3842-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI authlib < 1.6.5 1.6.5 GHSA-g7f3-828f-7h7m

Advisories 5

References