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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-34457)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2023-34457)

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-45b02f63e4 advisory.

    Automatic update for python-mechanicalsoup-1.3.0-1.fc41.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Sun Apr  7 2024 Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch> - 1.3.0-1
    - Update to latest upstream version 1.3.0 (closes rhbz#2219697)
    - Fix rhbz#2219756, rhbz#2261581 and rhbz#2232585

    ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
227115	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-34457	Nessus	Misc.	high
420272	SCA: security update for MechanicalSoup (GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
420272	SCA: security update for MechanicalSoup (GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
211430	Fedora 41 : python-mechanicalsoup (2024-45b02f63e4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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