CVE-2017-14158
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.51%Scrapy denial of service vulnerability
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14158
Description
Scrapy 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via large files because arbitrarily many files are read into memory, which is especially problematic if the files are then individually written in a separate thread to a slow storage resource, as demonstrated by interaction between dataReceived (in core/downloader/handlers/http11.py) and S3FilesStore.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/python-scrapyfrom 0
- PyPI/scrapy>= 0.7, <= 2.15.2
- PyPI/scrapy>= 0.7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h7wm-ph43-c39p
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14158
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14158
- PATCHhttps://github.com/scrapy/scrapy
- WEBhttp://blog.csdn.net/wangtua/article/details/75228728
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/8b7a4d62a95e8f605e5dfb4e0b4f299e6403dc12/vulns/scrapy/PYSEC-2017-83.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/scrapy/PYSEC-2017-83.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/482