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SCA: security update for MechanicalSoup (GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 420272

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x456-3ccm-m6j4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 420272

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34457

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 8.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-34457

cwe: CWE-20