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SCA: security update for scrapy (GHSA-7j7m-v7m3-jqm7)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 412106

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2024-3572)

Solution

Update the scrapy library and its related packages to version 1.8.4 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7j7m-v7m3-jqm7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412106

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.93

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3572

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3572

cwe: CWE-409