CVE-2024-3572
XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in scrapy/scrapy
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Apr 16, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 1, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 10, 2024
Description
The scrapy/scrapy project is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks due to the use of lxml.etree.fromstring for parsing untrusted XML data without proper validation. This vulnerability allows attackers to perform denial of service attacks, access local files, generate network connections, or circumvent firewalls by submitting specially crafted XML data.
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-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
scrapy/scrapyscrapy |
|
References
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