CVE-2017-14158

high
Published 2017-09-05 · Modified 2025-10-09
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14158

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIscrapy>=0.7,<=2.15.2
python PyPIscrapy>=0.7
PIPscrapy>= 0.7, <= 2.15.2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
scrapyscrapy1.4

References

CWEs

CWE-400

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.