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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.11.1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.11.1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.11.1-1 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
References
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/security/advisories/GHSA-7j7m-v7m3-jqm7
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3572
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/71b8741e3607cfda2833c7624d4ada87071aa8e5
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/809bfac4890f75fc73607318a04d2ccba71b3d9f
- https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/news.html#scrapy-2-11-1-2024-02-14
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy
- https://huntr.com/bounties/c4a0fac9-0c5a-4718-9ee4-2d06d58adabb
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-3572
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.