CVE-2024-3572 Information

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.

Reference

https://huntr.com/bounties/c4a0fac9-0c5a-4718-9ee4-2d06d58adabb https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/809bfac4890f75fc73607318a04d2ccba71b3d9f