CVE-2024-3572

Name	CVE-2024-3572
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
python-scrapy (PTS)	buster	1.5.1-1+deb10u1	vulnerable
	bullseye	2.4.1-2+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm	2.8.0-2	vulnerable
	sid, trixie	2.11.1-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
python-scrapy	source	(unstable)	2.11.1-1

Notes

[bookworm] - python-scrapy <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - python-scrapy <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
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