CVE-2024-1892
ReDoS Vulnerability in scrapy/scrapy's XMLFeedSpider
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Feb 28, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 11, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 26, 2024
Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the XMLFeedSpider class of the scrapy/scrapy project, specifically in the parsing of XML content. By crafting malicious XML content that exploits inefficient regular expression complexity used in the parsing process, an attacker can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability allows for the system to hang and consume significant resources, potentially rendering services that utilize Scrapy for XML processing unresponsive.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | @huntr_ai |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
scrapy/scrapyscrapy |
|
References
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