CVE-2025-62706
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.
EPSS 0.14% · 33.4th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| PyPI | authlib | 0 |
| authlib | authlib | < 1.6.5, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Oct 10, 2025 CVE Published
- Oct 23, 2025 EPSS Score
- Oct 23, 2025 PoC Published
- Oct 29, 2025 EPSS Score
- Nov 3, 2025 CVE Updated
- Nov 4, 2025 EPSS Score
- Nov 9, 2025 EPSS Score
- Nov 15, 2025 EPSS Score
- Nov 21, 2025 EPSS Score
- Nov 27, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 3, 2025 EPSS Score
- Dec 9, 2025 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/authlib/authlib package
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00032.html url
- https://github.com/authlib/authlib/security/advisories/GHSA-g7f3-828f-7h7m url
- https://github.com/authlib/authlib/commit/e0863d5129316b1790eee5f14cece32a03b8184d url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62706 advisory