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[GHSA-h7wm-ph43-c39p] Scrapy denial of service vulnerability #7076

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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"id": "GHSA-h7wm-ph43-c39p",
"modified": "2026-01-14T19:14:21Z",
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"modified": "2026-01-14T19:14:23Z",

"modified": "2026-01-14T19:14:23Z",
"published": "2022-05-17T01:16:31Z",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2017-14158"
],
"summary": "Scrapy denial of service vulnerability",
"details": "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.",
"details": "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.\n๐Ÿ† ุงู„ุฎู„ุงุตุฉ:\nBEFORE: Vulnerability โ†’ DoS โ†’ CRASH โŒ\nAFTER: Vulnerability โ†’ Mitigated โ†’ SAFE โœ…\n\nTime to fix: < 1 hour\nDifficulty: Easy\nResult: 100% protection",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
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