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ubuntu-cve-2023-34457

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2023-07-05 20:15

Modified

2026-05-20 15:02

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.

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-34457	REPORT
	https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/…	REPORT
	https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/…	REPORT
	https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34457	REPORT

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  "modified": "2026-05-20T15:02:43Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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  ]
}

CVE-2023-34457 (GCVE-0-2023-34457)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-05 19:25 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:55

Title

MechanicalSoup vulnerable to malicious web server reading arbitrary files on client using file input inside HTML form

Summary

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.

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023080…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
MechanicalSoup	MechanicalSoup	Affected: >= 0.2.0, < 1.3.0
mechanicalsoup_project	mechanicalsoup	Affected: 0.2.0 , < 1.3.0 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:mechanicalsoup_project:mechanicalsoup::::::python::*

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2023-34457 (GCVE-0-2023-34457)

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