CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41124

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-10-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

Scrapy-splash is a library which provides Scrapy and JavaScript integration. In affected versions users who use `HttpAuthMiddleware` (i.e. the `http_user` and `http_pass` spider attributes) for Splash authentication will have any non-Splash request expose your credentials to the request target. This includes `robots.txt` requests sent by Scrapy when the `ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` setting is set to `True`. Upgrade to scrapy-splash 0.8.0 and use the new `SPLASH_USER` and `SPLASH_PASS` settings instead to set your Splash authentication credentials safely. If you cannot upgrade, set your Splash request credentials on a per-request basis, using the `splash_headers` request parameter, instead of defining them globally using the `HttpAuthMiddleware`. Alternatively, make sure all your requests go through Splash. That includes disabling the robots.txt middleware.

Affected configurations

• zyte scrapy-splash (< 0.8.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References