CVE-2026-105782 PUBLISHED

Scrapy: Arbitrary Module Import via Referrer-Policy Header in RefererMiddleware

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.10.2026 Published: 05.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor scrapy
Product scrapy
Versions
  • Version >= 1.4.0, < 2.14.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-470: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') CWE