CVE-2024-3572

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.

References

https://huntr.com/bounties/c4a0fac9-0c5a-4718-9ee4-2d06d58adabb

https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/809bfac4890f75fc73607318a04d2ccba71b3d9f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3