CVE-2021-41125 affects Scrapy, a Python web crawling framework, specifically when using HttpAuthMiddleware for HTTP authentication. The vulnerability causes credentials to be inadvertently exposed to all request targets, including robots.txt requests and redirects, rather than only the intended domain. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a network attack vector and low complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality impact through unauthorized credential disclosure. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:scrapy:scrapy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.0.0, < 2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:scrapy:scrapy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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