CVE-2023-34457
- Reference to the description:
- 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.
- Last updated date:
- 08/03/2023
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/12/2023
- Reference url to background
https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/security/advisories/GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4