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CVE-2025-30160 Detail

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.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
CVSS-B 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

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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib/commit/15147cea8e42f6569a11603d661d71122f6a02dc
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib/commit/2e95e1fc6e2064ccfae87964b4860bda55eddb9a
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib/security/advisories/GHSA-g8vq-v3mg-7mrg

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data GitHub, Inc.  
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-30160
NVD Published Date:
03/20/2025
NVD Last Modified:
03/20/2025
Source:
GitHub, Inc.