CVE-2023-34457 (published 2023-07-05T19:25:35.966Z)
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: Vendor: MechanicalSoup
Product: MechanicalSoup
Versions: >= 0.2.0, < 1.3.0