Name: CVE-2024-3572: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2024-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2024-3572, CWE-409, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00814

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade python-scrapy	May 15, 2025	Apr 16, 2024
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade python3-scrapy (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade python-scrapy (Ubuntu Pro)	May 7, 2025	Apr 16, 2024

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CVSS Details

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