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TI-2024-38577 Aliases GHSA-23j4-mw76-5v7h

Scrapy allows redirect following in protocols other than HTTP

Priority LOW 38CWE-552Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
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Privileges required
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User interaction
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Attack complexity
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Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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Fix status
Fixed

No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-552.

Summary

### Impact Scrapy was following redirects regardless of the URL protocol, so redirects were working for `data://`, `file://`, `ftp://`, `s3://`, and any other scheme defined in the `DOWNLOAD_HANDLERS` setting. However, HTTP redirects should only work between URLs that use the `http://` or `https://` schemes. A malicious actor, given write access to the start requests (e.g. ability to define `start_urls`) of a spider and read access to the spider output, could exploit this vulnerability to: - Redirect to any local file using the `file://` scheme to read its contents. - Redirect to an `ftp://` URL of a malicious FTP server to obtain the FTP username and password configured in the spider or project. - Redirect to any `s3://` URL to read its content using the S3 credentials configured in the spider or project. For `file://` and `s3://`, how the spider implements its parsing of input data into an output item determines what data would be vulnerable. A spider that always outputs the entire contents of a response would be completely vulnerable, while a spider that extracted only fragments from the response could significantly limit vulnerable data. ### Patches Upgrade to Scrapy 2.11.2. ### Workarounds Replace the built-in retry middlewares (`RedirectMiddleware` and `MetaRefreshMiddleware`) with custom ones that implement the fix from Scrapy 2.11.2, and verify that they work as intended. ### References This security issue was reported by @mvsantos at https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/457.

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed Scrapy (PyPI): 2.11.2

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—Scrapy (PyPI)before 2.11.22.11.2Patch availableGHSA-23j4-mw76-5v7h
  • Scrapy (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 2.11.2 Fixed in 2.11.2 Patch available GHSA-23j4-mw76-5v7h

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-23j4-mw76-5v7h Scrapy (PyPI) Fixed in 2.11.2 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-23j4-mw76-5v7h

References

Sources

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