| Name | CVE-2023-34457 |
| Description | MechanicalSoup is a Python library for automating interaction with websites. Starting in version 0.2.0 and prior to version 1.3.0, a malicious web server can read arbitrary files on the client using a `<input type="file" ...>` inside HTML form. All users of MechanicalSoup's form submission are affected, unless they took very specific (and manual) steps to reset HTML form field values. Version 1.3.0 contains a patch for this issue. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1041814 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| python-mechanicalsoup (PTS) | buster | 0.10.0-2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 0.10.0-4 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 0.10.0-6 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1.3.0-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - python-mechanicalsoup <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - python-mechanicalsoup <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - python-mechanicalsoup <no-dsa> (Minor issue; invasive backport required)
https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/security/advisories/GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4
https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/commit/d57c4a269bba3b9a0c5bfa20292955b849006d9e (v1.3.0)