A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the XMLFeedSpider class of the scrapy/scrapy project, specifically in the parsing of XML content. By crafting malicious XML content that exploits inefficient regular expression complexity used in the parsing process, an attacker can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability allows for the system to hang and consume significant resources, potentially rendering services that utilize Scrapy for XML processing unresponsive.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: @huntr_ai
Published: 2024-02-28T00:00:14.092Z
Updated: 2024-08-11T14:28:49.917Z
Reserved: 2024-02-26T15:14:37.251Z
Link: CVE-2024-1892
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-08-01T18:56:22.557Z
NVD
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-02-28T00:15:53.897
Modified: 2024-04-16T12:15:10.050
Link: CVE-2024-1892
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