Bug 2219755 (CVE-2023-34457) - CVE-2023-34457 MechanicalSoup: Malicious web server can read arbitrary files on client using file input inside HTML form
Summary: CVE-2023-34457 MechanicalSoup: Malicious web server can read arbitrary files ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2023-34457
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2219756
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-07-05 07:21 UTC by TEJ RATHI
Modified: 2023-07-05 11:45 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: MechanicalSoup 1.3.0
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Last Closed: 2023-07-05 11:45:47 UTC
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Description TEJ RATHI 2023-07-05 07:21:54 UTC 
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.

https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup/security/advisories/GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4
Comment 1 TEJ RATHI 2023-07-05 07:22:17 UTC 
Created python-mechanicalsoup tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2219756]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-07-05 11:45:45 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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