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CVE-2024-3572highCWE-409

XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in scrapy/scrapy

21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.8%
exploitation probability
0.8%top 47% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
scrapy · scrapy/scrapy