GHSA-cc65-xxvf-f7r9

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cc65-xxvf-f7r9
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/02/GHSA-cc65-xxvf-f7r9/GHSA-cc65-xxvf-f7r9.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-cc65-xxvf-f7r9
Aliases
Published
2024-02-15T15:22:02Z
Modified
2024-04-16T16:27:42.839584Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Scrapy vulnerable to ReDoS via XMLFeedSpider
Details

Impact

The following parts of the Scrapy API were found to be vulnerable to a ReDoS attack:

  • The XMLFeedSpider class or any subclass that uses the default node iterator: iternodes, as well as direct uses of the scrapy.utils.iterators.xmliter function.

  • Scrapy 2.6.0 to 2.11.0: The open_in_browser function for a response without a base tag.

Handling a malicious response could cause extreme CPU and memory usage during the parsing of its content, due to the use of vulnerable regular expressions for that parsing.

Patches

Upgrade to Scrapy 2.11.1.

If you are using Scrapy 1.8 or a lower version, and upgrading to Scrapy 2.11.1 is not an option, you may upgrade to Scrapy 1.8.4 instead.

Workarounds

For XMLFeedSpider, switch the node iterator to xml or html.

For open_in_browser, before using the function, either manually review the response content to discard a ReDos attack or manually define the base tag to avoid its automatic definition by open_in_browser later.

Acknowledgements

This security issue was reported by @nicecatch2000 through huntr.com.

Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-02-15T15:22:02Z"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / scrapy

Package

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2
Fixed
2.11.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.0.0
2.0.1
2.1.0
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.3.0
2.4.0
2.4.1
2.5.0
2.5.1
2.6.0
2.6.1
2.6.2
2.6.3
2.7.0
2.7.1
2.8.0
2.9.0
2.10.0
2.10.1
2.11.0

PyPI / scrapy

Package

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8.4

Affected versions

0.*

0.7
0.8
0.9
0.10.4.2364
0.12.0.2550
0.14.1
0.14.2
0.14.3
0.14.4
0.16.0
0.16.1
0.16.2
0.16.3
0.16.4
0.16.5
0.18.0
0.18.1
0.18.2
0.18.3
0.18.4
0.20.0
0.20.1
0.20.2
0.22.0
0.22.1
0.22.2
0.24.0
0.24.1
0.24.2
0.24.3
0.24.4
0.24.5
0.24.6

1.*

1.0.0rc1
1.0.0rc2
1.0.0rc3
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.0.3
1.0.4
1.0.5
1.0.6
1.0.7
1.1.0rc1
1.1.0rc2
1.1.0rc3
1.1.0rc4
1.1.0
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.1.4
1.2.0
1.2.1
1.2.2
1.2.3
1.3.0
1.3.1
1.3.2
1.3.3
1.4.0
1.5.0
1.5.1
1.5.2
1.6.0
1.7.0
1.7.1
1.7.2
1.7.3
1.7.4
1.8.0
1.8.1
1.8.2
1.8.3