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CVE-2023-34457
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-07-05T20:15:10.343 · Last modified 2026-06-17T06:03:41.443

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.

Affected products

mechanicalsoup_project — mechanicalsoup

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