CVE-2021-41125
HTTP authentication credential leak to target websites in scrapy
02 Description
HTTP authentication credential leak to target websites in scrapy
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.26% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 69.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-10-06 17:15Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 02:59Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-09-15
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4090355ccd67892a42bfc479b0e870a565b86604fedc7d27dc07b9ece469bb3b
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/security/advisories/GHSA-jwqp-28gf-p498
- github.comhttps://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/commit/b01d69a1bf48060daec8f751368622352d8b85a6
- w3lib.readthedocs.iohttps://w3lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/w3lib.html#w3lib.http.basic_auth_header
- doc.scrapy.orghttp://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#module-scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20220316 [SECURITY] [DLA 2950-1] python-scrapy security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00021.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- scrapy Fixed in 2.5.1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- python-scrapy Fixed in 2.5.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- python-scrapy Fixed in 2.5.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- python-scrapy Fixed in 2.5.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- python-scrapy No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- python-scrapy Fixed in 1.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS
- python-scrapy Fixed in 1.7.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.