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HIGH 7.5 PyPI

Scrapy denial of service vulnerability

GHSA-h7wm-ph43-c39p · CVE-2017-14158 · PYSEC-2017-83

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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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