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This changes requirements.txt to address something a scan flagged. It is around line 18.

The installed internetarchive package (v5.2.0) contains a critical path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2025-58438) within its File.download() method. The function fails to sanitize supplied filenames or validate the final absolute path before writing files. Attackers can inject ../ sequences into archive metadata, causing downloads to escape the intended directory and overwrite arbitrary files. This can lead to configuration tampering, privilege escalation, or remote code execution depending on context. Due to the severe impact and straightforward exploitation vector, this is classified as CRITICAL. Immediate remediation is required.

Upgrade internetarchive, authlib, python-multipart, starlette, and urllib3 to versions that address the reported critical CVEs, reducing security risk. This minimal change aligns with the repository's manifest and preserves existing behavior.

For reference: rule CVE-2025-58438. Rated critical.

I do not know the codebase, so please check the change fits how the rest of it works. Happy to adjust it or close this if the reasoning is off.


Found with automated scanning (RedGem) and reviewed before opening. If it is not useful, closing it is completely fine.

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starlette==1.3.1 would break the install. fastapi==0.115.4 requires starlette<0.42.0,>=0.40.0. The PR jumps starlette across a major version while leaving fastapi pinned. That's a hard dependency conflict — pip will refuse to resolve

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Superseded by #212 (merged), and a duplicate of #206 — the two were opened seven seconds apart with the same changes. See #206 for the detail on which bumps were taken and why starlette was not.

ronibhakta1 pushed a commit to ronibhakta1/lenny that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
Takes the safe subset of the automated PRs ArchiveLabs#206/ArchiveLabs#207 and drops the part that
would have broken the build.

  internetarchive  5.2.0  -> 5.5.1   CVE-2025-58438, path traversal in
                                     File.download(). Not reachable from Lenny
                                     today (the only .download() call is
                                     StandardEbooks', a different library) but
                                     it is a one-line fix and I would rather
                                     not depend on that staying true.
  python-multipart 0.0.6  -> 0.0.30  Below what fastapi's own `standard` extra
                                     requires (>=0.0.7). Used for every Form()
                                     in the API, including the OAuth token and
                                     consent endpoints.
  authlib          1.3.1  -> 1.6.9   Verifies JWTs and JWKS in the OIDC client
                                     path (core/external_auth.py). Verified the
                                     two APIs that file uses still import.
  urllib3          2.4.0  -> 2.6.3   Patch bump.

NOT bumping starlette. ArchiveLabs#206/ArchiveLabs#207 propose 0.41.3 -> 1.3.1, but the pinned
fastapi==0.115.4 requires `starlette<0.42.0,>=0.40.0`. That jump crosses a
major version and conflicts with a pin the PRs leave untouched, so it would
break resolution rather than fix anything. Moving starlette means moving
fastapi, which is a separate change with its own testing.

On the provenance question, since these came from an outside automated
scanner: all four target versions are real releases of the canonical PyPI
projects, no index or VCS URL is introduced, and each target is *older* than
that project's current release — the signature of a scanner picking the
minimum version that clears a CVE rather than an attacker steering to their own
artifact. Verified against the PyPI simple index.

Resolves cleanly with the untouched pins; 293 passed, 13 skipped.

Refs ArchiveLabs#205

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UViYm1nKqJkiKJWJUr1eas
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