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SCA: security update for scrapy (GHSA-cc65-xxvf-f7r9)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 413819

Description

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

 - 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.
 (CVE-2024-1892)

Solution

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

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cc65-xxvf-f7r9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413819

Version: Revision 1.8

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: 23.51

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-2024-1892

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 2/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1892