Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all mechanize_project-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Historical issues mainly involve vendor risk path handling, vendor risk denial of service, and vendor risk command injection and related problems; some flaws may lead to vendor impact file overwrite.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-32837 | mechanize, a library for automatically interacting with HTTP web servers, contains a regular expression that is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) prior to version 0.4.6. If a web server responds in a malicious way, then mechanize could crash. Version 0.4.6 has a patch for the issue. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 1.94% | 2023-01-17 | 2025-12-22 |
| CVE-2022-31033 | The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, and can follow links and submit forms. In versions prior to 2.8.5 the Authorization header is leaked after a redirect to a different port on the same site. Users are advised to upgrade to Mechanize v2.8.5 or later. There are no known workarounds for this issue. | [email protected] | 5.9 | 0.32% | 2022-06-09 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2021-21289 | Mechanize is an open-source ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy. In Mechanize from version 2.0.0 and before version 2.7.7 there is a command injection vulnerability. Affected versions of mechanize allow for OS commands to be injected using several classes' methods which implicitly use Ruby's Kernel.open method. Exploitation is possible only if untrusted input is used as a local filename and passed to any of these calls: Mechanize::CookieJar#load, Mechanize::CookieJar#save_as, | [email protected] | 7.4 | 2.50% | 2021-02-02 | 2024-11-21 |