Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-34457 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mechanicalsoup Project Mechanicalsoup
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/commit/d57c4a269bba3b9a0c5bfa20292955b849006d9e
- https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/releases/tag/v1.3.0
- https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/security/advisories/GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230803-0005/
- https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/commit/d57c4a269bba3b9a0c5bfa20292955b849006d9e
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230803-0005/
- https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/security/advisories/GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4
- https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/releases/tag/v1.3.0