What is CVE-2025-32949?

CVE-2025-32949 is a medium-severity vulnerability, classified under Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-15.

How severe is CVE-2025-32949?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

CVE-2025-32949

CVE-2025-32949

This vulnerability allows any authenticated user to cause the server to consume very large amounts of disk space when extracting a Zip Bomb. If user import is enabled (which is the default setting), any registered user can upload an arch…

EPSS: 0.001 (34.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-409 — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

References

github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v7.1.1 (patch)
research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/peertube-archive-resource-exhaustion/ (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-32949?: CVE-2025-32949 is a medium-severity vulnerability, classified under Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-15.
How severe is CVE-2025-32949?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.