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Please look at issue #56.

$ Bash
View GitHub issue #56
gh issue view 56
title:	Address dependabot alerts
state:	OPEN
author:	dboreham
labels:	
comments:	0
assignees:	
projects:	
milestone:	
number:	56
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Dependabot has opened a bunch of alerts that all seem to be regarding the version of urllib3 that we are using.
$ Bash
List dependabot alerts
gh api repos/stirlingbridge/machine/dependabot/alerts --jq '.[] | {number: .number, state: .state, package: .dependency.package.name, severity: .security_advisory.severity, summary: .security_advisory.summary}' 2>/dev/null | head -50
{"number":8,"package":"black","severity":"high","state":"fixed","summary":"Black: Arbitrary file writes from unsanitized user input in cache file name"}
{"number":7,"package":"urllib3","severity":"high","state":"open","summary":"Decompression-bomb safeguards bypassed when following HTTP redirects (streaming API)"}
{"number":6,"package":"urllib3","severity":"high","state":"open","summary":"urllib3 streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data"}
{"number":5,"package":"urllib3","severity":"high","state":"open","summary":"urllib3 allows an unbounded number of links in the decompression chain"}
{"number":4,"package":"urllib3","severity":"medium","state":"open","summary":"urllib3 does not control redirects in browsers and Node.js"}
{"number":3,"package":"urllib3","severity":"medium","state":"open","summary":"urllib3 redirects are not disabled when retries are disabled on PoolManager instantiation"}
{"number":2,"package":"requests","severity":"medium","state":"open","summary":"Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs"}
{"number":1,"package":"requests","severity":"medium","state":"fixed","summary":"Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs"}
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{
  "file_path": "/home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/pyproject.toml"
}
     1→[project]
     2→name = "machine"
     3→version = "1.0.0"
     4→description = "Utility for creating and managing VMs"
     5→readme = "README.md"
     6→license = "AGPL-3.0-only"
     7→requires-python = ">=3.8"
     8→authors = [
     9→    { name = "Stirlingbridge", email = "info@stirlingbridge.website" },
    10→]
    11→classifiers = [
    12→    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
    13→    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
    14→]
    15→dependencies = [
    16→    "click==8.1.7",
    17→    "python-digitalocean==1.17.0",
    18→    "ruamel.yaml>=0.17.32",
    19→    "requests==2.32.3",
    20→    "expandvars==1.0.0",
    21→    "vultr-python>=0.1.5",
    22→]
    23→
    24→[project.scripts]
    25→machine = "machine.main:main"
    26→
    27→[project.urls]
    28→Homepage = "https://github.com/stirlingbridge/machine"
    29→
    30→[build-system]
    31→requires = ["hatchling"]
    32→build-backend = "hatchling.build"
    33→
    34→[tool.pytest.ini_options]
    35→markers = [
    36→    "e2e: end-to-end tests that create real resources on DigitalOcean (require E2E_* env vars)",
    37→]
    38→addopts = "-m 'not e2e'"
    39→
    40→[dependency-groups]
    41→dev = [
    42→    "ruff",
    43→    "pytest",
    44→]
    45→
    46→[tool.ruff]
    47→line-length = 132
    48→
    49→[tool.ruff.lint]
    50→select = ["E", "F", "W", "C90"]
    51→ignore = ["E203"]
    52→
    53→[tool.ruff.lint.mccabe]
    54→max-complexity = 25
    55→
    56→[tool.ruff.lint.per-file-ignores]
    57→"machine/cloud_config.py" = ["E501"]
    58→
$ Bash
Check current urllib3 and requests versions
uv pip show urllib3 requests 2>/dev/null || uv run pip show urllib3 requests 2>/dev/null
Name: requests
Version: 2.32.3
Location: /home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages
Requires: certifi, charset-normalizer, idna, urllib3
Required-by: machine, python-digitalocean, vultr-python
---
Name: urllib3
Version: 2.6.3
Location: /home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages
Requires:
Required-by: requests
Thinking
$ Bash
Get detailed vulnerability info
gh api repos/stirlingbridge/machine/dependabot/alerts --jq '.[] | select(.state=="open") | {number: .number, package: .dependency.package.name, vulnerable_range: .security_vulnerability.vulnerable_version_range, first_patched: .security_vulnerability.first_patched_version.identifier, manifest: .dependency.manifest_path}'
{"first_patched":"2.6.3","manifest":"uv.lock","number":7,"package":"urllib3","vulnerable_range":"\u003e= 1.22, \u003c 2.6.3"}
{"first_patched":"2.6.0","manifest":"uv.lock","number":6,"package":"urllib3","vulnerable_range":"\u003e= 1.0, \u003c 2.6.0"}
{"first_patched":"2.6.0","manifest":"uv.lock","number":5,"package":"urllib3","vulnerable_range":"\u003e= 1.24, \u003c 2.6.0"}
{"first_patched":"2.5.0","manifest":"uv.lock","number":4,"package":"urllib3","vulnerable_range":"\u003e= 2.2.0, \u003c 2.5.0"}
{"first_patched":"2.5.0","manifest":"uv.lock","number":3,"package":"urllib3","vulnerable_range":"\u003c 2.5.0"}
{"first_patched":"2.32.4","manifest":"uv.lock","number":2,"package":"requests","vulnerable_range":"\u003c 2.32.4"}
$ Bash
Check locked versions in uv.lock
grep -A2 'name = "urllib3"' /home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/uv.lock; echo "---"; grep -A2 'name = "requests"' /home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/uv.lock | head -10
    { name = "urllib3", version = "2.2.3", source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }, marker = "python_full_version < '3.9'" },
    { name = "urllib3", version = "2.6.3", source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }, marker = "python_full_version >= '3.9'" },
]
sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/63/70/2bf7780ad2d390a8d301ad0b550f1581eadbd9a20f896afe06353c2a2913/requests-2.32.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:55365417734eb18255590a9ff9eb97e9e1da868d4ccd6402399eaf68af20a760", size = 131218, upload-time = "2024-05-29T15:37:49.536Z" }
--
name = "urllib3"
version = "2.2.3"
source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
--
name = "urllib3"
version = "2.6.3"
source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
---
    { name = "requests" },
    { name = "ruamel-yaml" },
    { name = "vultr-python" },
--
    { name = "requests", specifier = "==2.32.3" },
    { name = "ruamel-yaml", specifier = ">=0.17.32" },
    { name = "vultr-python", specifier = ">=0.1.5" },
--
    { name = "requests" },
]

Now I can see the issues clearly. The uv.lock has two problems:

  1. urllib3 2.2.3 is locked for Python <3.9, which is vulnerable to all 5 urllib3 alerts (needs >=2.6.3)
  2. requests 2.32.3 is pinned in pyproject.toml, but alert #2 needs >=2.32.4

Since the project requires Python >=3.8, it supports the older Python where the vulnerable urllib3 2.2.3 gets resolved. However, the CLAUDE.md notes CI builds on Python 3.8.

Let me check what the latest urllib3 version is that supports Python 3.8, and what requests 2.32.4 requires.

$ Bash
Check available versions
uv pip index versions urllib3 2>/dev/null | head -5; echo "---"; uv pip index versions requests 2>/dev/null | head -5
The user doesn't want to proceed with this tool use. The tool use was rejected (eg. if it was a file edit, the new_string was NOT written to the file). STOP what you are doing and wait for the user to tell you how to proceed.

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[Request interrupted by user for tool use]

Instead of looking to maintain compatibility with Python 3.8 we can just move to a relatively recent Python version that allows easy compatibility with the fixed dependencies.

Thinking

Makes sense. urllib3 2.6.3 (the fix for all 5 alerts) requires Python >=3.9, and the lock file already resolves it for that range. Let me bump the minimum to Python 3.10 (a reasonable modern baseline), update the pinned requests, and regenerate the lock.

✏️ Edit pyproject.toml
/home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/pyproject.toml
requires-python = ">=3.8"
+
requires-python = ">=3.10"
The file /home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/pyproject.toml has been updated successfully.
✏️ Edit pyproject.toml
/home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/pyproject.toml
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
The file /home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/pyproject.toml has been updated successfully.
✏️ Edit pyproject.toml
/home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/pyproject.toml
    "requests==2.32.3",
+
    "requests>=2.32.4",
The file /home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/pyproject.toml has been updated successfully.

Now let me also check the CI workflow for the Python version and regenerate the lock file.

Grep
{
  "pattern": "3\\.8|python-version",
  "path": "/home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/.github",
  "output_mode": "content"
}
No matches found
Grep
{
  "pattern": "python",
  "path": "/home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine/.github",
  "output_mode": "content",
  "-i": true
}
.github/workflows/test.yml:20:      - name: "Install Python"
.github/workflows/test.yml:21:        run: uv python install 3.13
.github/workflows/build-release.yml:18:      - name: "Install Python"
.github/workflows/build-release.yml:19:        run: uv python install 3.13
.github/workflows/e2e-test.yml:27:      - name: "Install Python"
.github/workflows/e2e-test.yml:28:        run: uv python install 3.13

CI already uses Python 3.13, so no changes needed there. Now regenerate the lock file.

$ Bash
Regenerate uv.lock with updated constraints
uv lock
Resolved 23 packages in 592ms
Updated iniconfig v2.1.0, v2.3.0 -> v2.3.0
Updated pluggy v1.5.0, v1.6.0 -> v1.6.0
Updated pytest v8.3.5, v8.4.2, v9.0.2 -> v9.0.2
Updated requests v2.32.3 -> v2.32.5
Updated typing-extensions v4.13.2, v4.15.0 -> v4.15.0
Updated urllib3 v2.2.3, v2.6.3 -> v2.6.3

The key changes: urllib3 is now only 2.6.3 (the vulnerable 2.2.3 for Python <3.9 is gone), and requests updated to 2.32.5. Let me sync to verify everything works.

$ Bash
Sync and verify CLI works
uv sync && uv run machine --help | head -5
Resolved 23 packages in 0.76ms
   Building machine @ file:///home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine
      Built machine @ file:///home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine
Prepared 2 packages in 678ms
Uninstalled 2 packages in 4ms
Installed 2 packages in 1ms
 ~ machine==1.0.0 (from file:///home/david/projects/stirlingbridge/machine)
 - requests==2.32.3
 + requests==2.32.5
Usage: machine [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --debug               Enable debug output
  --quiet               Suppress all non-essential output

Everything works. Here's what was changed to address all 6 open dependabot alerts:

  • Bumped minimum Python from 3.8 to 3.10 — eliminates the vulnerable urllib3 2.2.3 that was resolved for Python <3.9
  • Unpinned requests from ==2.32.3 to >=2.32.4 — fixes the .netrc credential leak (alert #2)
  • Regenerated uv.lock — urllib3 now resolves to 2.6.3 only (fixes alerts #3-#7), requests to 2.32.5 (fixes alert #2)

CI already builds on Python 3.13, so no workflow changes needed. Would you like me to commit this?

No, I'll take care of committing it.

Sounds good!

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