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Debian DLA-2950-1 : python-scrapy - LTS security update
medium Nessus Plugin ID 158996
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.Description
The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2950 advisory.- 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)
- Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in GitHub repository scrapy/scrapy prior to 2.6.1. (CVE-2022-0577)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Upgrade the python-scrapy packages.For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.3-2+deb9u1.
See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?ef161ca1
https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-2950
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-41125
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 158996
File Name: debian_DLA-2950.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/16/2022
Updated: 11/6/2023
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4
Temporal Score: 3.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0577
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
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:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-scrapy, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-scrapy-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-41125, CVE-2022-0577