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Duplicate Advisory: Scrapy decompression bomb vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 16, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 16, 2024
Withdrawn This advisory was withdrawn on Apr 16, 2024

Package

pip scrapy (pip)

Affected versions

< 2.11.1

Patched versions

2.11.1

Description

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-7j7m-v7m3-jqm7. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original 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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 16, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 16, 2024
Reviewed Apr 16, 2024
Last updated Apr 16, 2024
Withdrawn Apr 16, 2024

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-rmqv-7v3j-mr7p

Source code

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