CVE-2024-3572
Publication date 16 April 2024
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
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.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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python-scrapy | 24.10 oracular |
Not affected
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24.04 LTS noble |
Not affected
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22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
|
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20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
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18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
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16.04 LTS xenial |
Needs evaluation
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References
Other references
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3572
- https://huntr.com/bounties/c4a0fac9-0c5a-4718-9ee4-2d06d58adabb
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/809bfac4890f75fc73607318a04d2ccba71b3d9f (2.11.1)
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/security/advisories/GHSA-7j7m-v7m3-jqm7
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/809bfac4890f75fc73607318a04d2ccba71b3d9f