CVE-2024-3572

2024-04-1600:15:12

Google

osv.dev

scrapy project

xml external entity attacks

denial of service

file access

network connection generation

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.2%

JSON

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.

CPENameOperatorVersion
scrapyeq2.11.0
scrapyeq0.9
scrapyeq1.2.0dev2
scrapyeqhojo
scrapyeq2.3.0
scrapyeq1.3.0
scrapyeq1.7.0
scrapyeq0.10.2
scrapyeq2.5.0
scrapyeq0.7