Scrapy Protego vulnerabilities

1 vulnerability

Known vulnerabilities in Scrapy Protego, newest first, with CVSS severity, EPSS, KEV listings, ransomware use and the affected versions.

7.1CVE-2026-55520debianpython-protego+4
EPSS score
0.51%
Protego is a pure-Python robots.txt parser with support for modern conventions. Prior to 0.6.2, protego._urlpattern._URLPattern._prepare_pattern_for_regex translates every asterisk in an Allow or Disallow directive into a lazy regular-expression wildcard, so a directive containing many asterisks creates exponential backtracking. After protego.Protego.parse processes a crafted robots.txt file, protego.Protego.can_fetch can spend an attacker-controlled period matching a near-miss URL and deny service to the crawler. The vulnerable path is src/protego/_urlpattern.py in the _URLPattern match logic. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.2.