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.
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Advisories
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EUVD |
EUVD-2023-0143 | 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. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4 | MechanicalSoup vulnerable to malicious web server reading arbitrary files on client using file input inside HTML form |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2025-02-13T16:55:35.658Z
Reserved: 2023-06-06T16:16:53.559Z
Link: CVE-2023-34457
Updated: 2024-08-02T16:10:06.995Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-07-05T20:15:10.343
Modified: 2024-11-21T08:07:17.630
Link: CVE-2023-34457
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