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CVE-2021-41125 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2021-41125: 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 compone

Affects 3 Linux releases across 3 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2021-41125 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

  • python-scrapy→ fixed in2.4.1-2+deb11u1urgency: not yet assigned
    sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python-scrapy

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

  • python-scrapy→ fixed in2.5.1-1urgency: not yet assigned
    sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python-scrapy

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

  • python-scrapy→ fixed in2.5.1-1urgency: not yet assigned
    sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python-scrapy
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