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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Advisories
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EUVD |
EUVD-2024-0162 | 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. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-cc65-xxvf-f7r9 | Scrapy vulnerable to ReDoS via XMLFeedSpider |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-7476-1 | Scrapy vulnerabilities |
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Solution
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History
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000
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Scrapy
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:scrapy:scrapy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Scrapy
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: @huntr_ai
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-11T14:28:49.917Z
Reserved: 2024-02-26T15:14:37.251Z
Link: CVE-2024-1892
Updated: 2024-08-01T18:56:22.557Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-02-28T00:15:53.897
Modified: 2025-01-10T14:49:33.690
Link: CVE-2024-1892
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