CVE-2017-14158: Scrapy 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via large files becaus...

Security readout for executives and security teams

CVE-2017-14158 describes a Scrapy 1.4 denial-of-service condition where large downloaded files can drive excessive memory use. The business impact is crawler instability or outage, especially where crawlers process untrusted URLs and store files to slower backends such as S3. Exposure is most likely in systems still running Scrapy 1.4 that download files from remote or user-controlled sources, particularly pipelines using S3FilesStore or other slow storage targets. The bundle does not identify other affected versions or downstream products. Prioritize if Scrapy crawlers support business-critical operations or process untrusted remote content. Risk is operational availability rather than data theft based on the supplied sources. If Scrapy 1.4 is absent, this should be closed as not affected. Mitigation focus: Identify and prioritize any production use of Scrapy 1.4.; Review the upstream Scrapy issue for vendor guidance or fixed-version direction.; Reduce exposure of affected crawlers to untrusted file downloads until remediated..

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Jun 12, 2026, 21:19 UTC (UTC+00:00)

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