CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-3572

7.5 HIGH Published 2024-04-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-04-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-409

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.

Affected configurations

• scrapy scrapy (< 2.11.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) weakness

References