CVE catalog
CVE-2024-1892
Scrapy vulnerabilities
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.56% · Oct 25, 2026
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the XMLFeedSpider class of the scrapy/scrapy project, specifically in the parsing of XML content. By crafting malicious XML content that exploits inefficient regular expression complexity used in the parsing process, an attacker can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability allows for the system to hang and consume significant resources, potentially rendering services that utilize Scrapy for XML processing unresponsive.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | python-scrapy | sid | 2.19.0-2 | fixed |
| Debian | python-scrapy | forky | 2.19.0-2 | fixed |
| Debian | python-scrapy | trixie | 2.12.0-2 | fixed |
| Debian | python-scrapy | bookworm | 2.8.0-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | noble | Not reported | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | noble | 2.11.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy-doc | noble | 2.11.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | python3-scrapy | noble | 2.11.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | 16.04 | 1.0.0-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | 16.04 | 1.0.3-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | pro | 2.4.1-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | pro | 2.5.1-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | pro | 2.5.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | python-scrapy | source | sid | 2.11.1-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1065111] |
| Debian | python-scrapy | source | forky | 2.11.1-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1065111] |
| Debian | python-scrapy | source | trixie | 2.11.1-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1065111] |
| Debian | python-scrapy | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1065111] |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | deb | noble | 2.11.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy-doc | deb | noble | 2.11.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | python3-scrapy | deb | noble | 2.11.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | python-scrapy | deb | pro | 2.5.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-1892 | Not reported |
Notes
[bookworm] python-scrapy: Minor issue
OpenFactory catalog packages
Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/opensuse-su-2024_13802-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-1892]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-1892]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-1892]
- [https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7476-1]
[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [SUSE security advisories and VEX] · [Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)]