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CVE-2024-1892

Description

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.

POC

Reference

- https://huntr.com/bounties/271f94f2-1e05-4616-ac43-41752389e26b

Github

- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

- https://github.com/leoambrus/artefactswithoutCVEonGitHubAdvisoryDatabase