diff --git a/scrapy/spiders/sitemap.py b/scrapy/spiders/sitemap.py
index aaf75a519..cc8b13cc3 100644
--- a/scrapy/spiders/sitemap.py
+++ b/scrapy/spiders/sitemap.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import re
 
 from scrapy.http import Request, XmlResponse
 from scrapy.spiders import Spider
+from scrapy.utils._compression import _DecompressionMaxSizeExceeded
 from scrapy.utils.gz import gunzip, gzip_magic_number
 from scrapy.utils.sitemap import Sitemap, sitemap_urls_from_robots
 
@@ -71,7 +72,12 @@ class SitemapSpider(Spider):
         if isinstance(response, XmlResponse):
             return response.body
         if gzip_magic_number(response):
-            return gunzip(response.body)
+            try:
+                return gunzip(
+                    response.body, max_size=self.settings.getint("DOWNLOAD_MAXSIZE")
+                )
+            except _DecompressionMaxSizeExceeded:
+                return None
         # actual gzipped sitemap files are decompressed above ;
         # if we are here (response body is not gzipped)
         # and have a response for .xml.gz,
diff --git a/tests/test_spider.py b/tests/test_spider.py
index 00da3d485..875ff5454 100644
--- a/tests/test_spider.py
+++ b/tests/test_spider.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import gzip
 import inspect
 import warnings
 from io import BytesIO
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
 from unittest import mock
 
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ from scrapy.spiders import (
 )
 from scrapy.spiders.init import InitSpider
 from scrapy.utils.test import get_crawler
-from tests import get_testdata
+from tests import get_testdata, tests_datadir
 
 
 class SpiderTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -489,7 +490,8 @@ class SitemapSpiderTest(SpiderTest):
     GZBODY = f.getvalue()
 
     def assertSitemapBody(self, response, body):
-        spider = self.spider_class("example.com")
+        crawler = get_crawler()
+        spider = self.spider_class.from_crawler(crawler, "example.com")
         self.assertEqual(spider._get_sitemap_body(response), body)
 
     def test_get_sitemap_body(self):
@@ -692,6 +694,15 @@ Sitemap: /sitemap-relative-url.xml
             ["http://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml"],
         )
 
+    def test_compression_bomb(self):
+        settings = {"DOWNLOAD_MAXSIZE": 10_000_000}
+        crawler = get_crawler(settings_dict=settings)
+        spider = self.spider_class.from_crawler(crawler, "example.com")
+        body_path = Path(tests_datadir, "compressed", "bomb-gzip.bin")
+        body = body_path.read_bytes()
+        response = Response(url="https://example.com", body=body)
+        self.assertIsNone(spider._get_sitemap_body(response))
+
 
 class DeprecationTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_crawl_spider(self):