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Ubuntu: USN-7476-1 (CVE-2024-3572): Scrapy vulnerabilities

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Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 16, 2024
Added
May 7, 2025
Modified
May 7, 2025

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.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-scrapyubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-scrapy

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