Scrapy is a high-level web crawling and scraping framework for Python. From 1.4.0 until 2.14.2, RefererMiddleware in scrapy/spidermiddlewares/referer.py treated a Referrer-Policy response-header value that resembled a Python import path as a referrer policy class, imported the referenced object, and called it. A malicious website could supply a callable such as sys.exit and terminate a crawler processing the response. This issue is fixed in version 2.14.2.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-cwxj-rr6w-m6w7 | Scrapy: Arbitrary Module Import via Referrer-Policy Header in RefererMiddleware |
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History
Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0000
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| Description | Scrapy is a high-level web crawling and scraping framework for Python. From 1.4.0 until 2.14.2, RefererMiddleware in scrapy/spidermiddlewares/referer.py treated a Referrer-Policy response-header value that resembled a Python import path as a referrer policy class, imported the referenced object, and called it. A malicious website could supply a callable such as sys.exit and terminate a crawler processing the response. This issue is fixed in version 2.14.2. | |
| Title | Scrapy: Arbitrary Module Import via Referrer-Policy Header in RefererMiddleware | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-470 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-05T23:08:55.749Z
Reserved: 2026-10-05T20:37:19.362Z
Link: CVE-2026-105782
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-06T00:16:33.613
Modified: 2026-10-06T00:16:33.613
Link: CVE-2026-105782
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-06T00:30:18Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA