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Vulnerability details: VCID-auya-u2uf-27gn
Vulnerability ID VCID-auya-u2uf-27gn
Aliases GHSA-rmqv-7v3j-mr7p
Summary Duplicate Advisory: Scrapy decompression bomb vulnerability ## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-7j7m-v7m3-jqm7. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/809bfac4890f75fc73607318a04d2ccba71b3d9f
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://huntr.com/bounties/c4a0fac9-0c5a-4718-9ee4-2d06d58adabb
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3572
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No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T12:49:35.119466+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/04/GHSA-rmqv-7v3j-mr7p/GHSA-rmqv-7v3j-mr7p.json 38.0.0