Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
auto-favicon, a PyPI package (up to version 1.0.1 per the listing), has a server-side request forgery issue in its generate_favicon_from_url function, where the image_url argument is not properly controlled. A remote attacker can exploit this to make the server issue requests to destinations of their choosing. No fix is listed, and the source gives few details about how the rolling release is versioned; the source also says a public exploit exists.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | Medium | 4.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P | CNA (VulDB) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0020, the 10th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:59 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:59 UTC Confirmed by OSV