DEBIAN-CVE-2023-34457

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2023-34457

    Published: 5 Jul 2023Last Modified: 15 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-34457

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-34457

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-mechanicalsoup

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/python-mechanicalsoup?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.10.0-6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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