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.
Published: 2023-07-05
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: 2.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD 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 Github GHSA GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4 MechanicalSoup vulnerable to malicious web server reading arbitrary files on client using file input inside HTML form
History

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Mechanicalsoup Project Mechanicalsoup
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-13T16:55:35.658Z

Reserved: 2023-06-06T16:16:53.559Z

Link: CVE-2023-34457

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Updated: 2024-08-02T16:10:06.995Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-05T20:15:10.343

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:07:17.630

Link: CVE-2023-34457

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