CVE-2017-14158

Published Sep 5, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 2.6% KEV · Not listed
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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0128 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-h7wm-ph43-c39p Scrapy denial of service vulnerability
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 7:20 PM
Reserved
Sep 5, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 5, 2017, 5:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:05 AM