Echo: authlib: security update to 1.6.5

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 465268

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2025-62706)

Solution

Update the authlib library and its related packages to version 1.6.5 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-62706

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 465268

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.19

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-62706

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-62706