CVE-2023-34457 — MechanicalSoup vulnerable to malicious web server reading arbitrary files on client using file input inside HTML form
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 file…
Published: 2023-07-05 · CVSS: 5.9 · CVSS 3.1
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 Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7