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Medium · 5.7 CVE-2021-41125 EUVD-2021-0239GHSA-jwqp-28gf-p498PYSEC-2021-363

HTTP authentication credential leak to target websites in scrapy

Published Oct 6, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
scrapy scrapy < 1.8.1, >= 2.0.0, < 2.5.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 python-scrapy 2.5.1-1 —
Debian 13 python-scrapy 2.5.1-1 —
Debian 12 python-scrapy 2.5.1-1 —
Debian 9 python-scrapy 1.0.3-2+deb9u1 DLA-2950-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS python-scrapy No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS python-scrapy 2.11.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-7476-1
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS python-scrapy 2.5.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-7476-1
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS python-scrapy 1.7.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-7476-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS python-scrapy 1.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 USN-7476-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Scrapy 2.5.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:11558-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI scrapy < 1.8.1 1.8.1 GHSA-jwqp-28gf-p498
PyPI scrapy >= 2.0.0, < 2.5.1 2.5.1 GHSA-jwqp-28gf-p498
PyPI scrapy < 1.8.1 · >= 2.0.0, < 2.5.1 1.8.1, 2.5.1 PYSEC-2021-363

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