CVE-2023-23608 – spotipy Path traversal vulnerability that may lead to type confusion in URI handling code

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2023-23608

Spotipy is a light weight Python library for the Spotify Web API. In versions prior to 2.22.1, if a malicious URI is passed to the library, the library can be tricked into performing an operation on a different API endpoint than intended. The code Spotipy uses to parse URIs and URLs allows an attacker to insert arbitrary characters into the path that is used for API requests. Because it is possible to include ". • https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/security/advisories/GHSA-q764-g6fm-555v • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') •