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SCA: security update for Scrapy (GHSA-jwqp-28gf-p498)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416609

Description

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

 - Scrapy is a high-level web crawling and scraping framework for Python. If you use `HttpAuthMiddleware`
 (i.e. the `http_user` and `http_pass` spider attributes) for HTTP authentication, all requests will expose
 your credentials to the request target. This includes requests generated by Scrapy components, such as
 `robots.txt` requests sent by Scrapy when the `ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` setting is set to `True`, or as requests
 reached through redirects. Upgrade to Scrapy 2.5.1 and use the new `http_auth_domain` spider attribute to
 control which domains are allowed to receive the configured HTTP authentication credentials. If you are
 using Scrapy 1.8 or a lower version, and upgrading to Scrapy 2.5.1 is not an option, you may upgrade to
 Scrapy 1.8.1 instead. If you cannot upgrade, set your HTTP authentication credentials on a per-request
 basis, using for example the `w3lib.http.basic_auth_header` function to convert your credentials into a
 value that you can assign to the `Authorization` header of your request, instead of defining your
 credentials globally using `HttpAuthMiddleware`. (CVE-2021-41125)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jwqp-28gf-p498

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416609

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41125

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41125