CVE-2021-41125
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`.
EPSS 0.25% · 48.7th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| PyPI | Scrapy | 2.0.0, 0 |
| scrapy | scrapy | 0, < 1.8.1, 2.0.0 |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/security/advisories/GHSA-jwqp-28gf-p498 (circl)
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/b01d69a1bf48060daec8f751368622352d8b85a6 (circl)
- https://w3lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/w3lib.html#w3lib.http.basic_auth_header (circl)
- http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#module-scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth (circl)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220316 [SECURITY] [DLA 2950-1] python-scrapy security update (circl)
Timeline
- Oct 6, 2021 CVE Published
- Oct 7, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 3, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 22, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 19, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 9, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 5, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 3, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy package
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/security/advisories/GHSA-jwqp-28gf-p498 url
- https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/b01d69a1bf48060daec8f751368622352d8b85a6 url
- https://w3lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/w3lib.html#w3lib.http.basic_auth_header url
- http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#module-scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth url
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220316 [SECURITY] [DLA 2950-1] python-scrapy security update mailing-list
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41125 advisory
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/scrapy/PYSEC-2021-363.yaml url