CVE-2023-34457 Information

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=ile\ ...> 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.

Reference

https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/releases/tag/v1.3.0 https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/security/advisories/GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4 https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/commit/d57c4a269bba3b9a0c5bfa20292955b849006d9e