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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2024-3572

XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in scrapy/scrapy

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

scrapy scrapy/scrapy

  • unspecified to < 2.11.1affected

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