VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-3572

CVSS score7.5 HIGH

EPSS probability0.81%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2024-04-16

Last modified2026-06-17

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

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.

Weakness classification

security@huntr.dev: CWE-409

Primary references

security@huntr.dev — Patch
security@huntr.dev — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory