CVE-2023-34457
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34457
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-34457.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-34457
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2023-07-05T19:25:35Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-30T20:21:01.810889Z
- Severity
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- 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- MechanicalSoup vulnerable to malicious web server reading arbitrary files on client using file input inside HTML form
- Details
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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. - Database specific
{ "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-20" ] }- References
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- 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/