GHSA-823f-cwm9-4g74 Splash authentication credentials potentially leaked to target websites

• PyPI scrapy-splash: < 0.8.0 → fixed in 0.8.0

Impact If you use `HttpAuthMiddleware` (i.e. the `http_user` and `http_pass` spider attributes) for Splash authentication, any non-Splash request will expose your credentials to the request target. This includes `robots.txt` requests sent by Scrapy when the `ROBOTSTXT_OBEY` setting is set to `True`. Patches 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. Workarounds 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. For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: • Open an issue • Email us