GHSA-r9x7-2xmr-v8fw

mangadex-downloader vulnerable to unauthorized file reading

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2022-36082

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	mangadex-downloader	>= 1.3.0, < 1.7.2	1.7.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact When using `file:<location>` command and `<location>` is web URL location (http, https). mangadex-downloader will try to open and read a file in local disk if the content from online file is exist-as-a-file in victim computer So far, the app only read the files and not execute it. But still, when someone reading your files without you knowing, it's very scary. ### Proof of Concept (PoC) https://www.mansuf.link/unauthorized-file-read-in-mangadex-downloader-cve-2022-36082/ ### Workarounds Unfortunately, there is no workarounds to make it safe from this issue. But i suggest you double check the url before proceed to download or update to latest version ( >= 1.7.2) ### Patches Fixed in version 1.7.2. Commit patch: https://github.com/mansuf/mangadex-downloader/commit/439cc2825198ebc12b3310c95c39a8c7710c9b42

References

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