The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:2400 advisory.

    Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a     modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression     ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in     speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Scrapy: python-scrapy: brotli: Python brotli decompression bomb DoS (CVE-2025-6176)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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RHEL 8 : brotli (RHSA-2026:2400)

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