Package: python3-debianbts
Version: 4.0.1
Tags: security

This module doesn't verify the server's TLS certificate:

   >>> import debianbts
   >>> debianbts.set_soap_location("https://self-signed.badssl.com";)
   >>> debianbts.get_status(42)
   b'<html>\r\n<head><title>405 Not Allowed</title></head>\r\n<body bgcolor="white">\r\n<center><h1>405 Not 
Allowed</h1></center>\r\n<hr><center>nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)</center>\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n'
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     ...
     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
     File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debianbts/debianbts.py", line 240, in 
get_status
       reply = soap_client.call("get_status", method_el)
     File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pysimplesoap/client.py", line 257, in 
call
       response = SimpleXMLElement(self.xml_response, namespace=self.namespace,
     File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pysimplesoap/simplexml.py", line 56, 
in __init__
       self.__document = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(text)
     File "/usr/lib/python3.10/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 2000, in parseString
       return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
     File "/usr/lib/python3.10/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 925, in 
parseString
       return builder.parseString(string)
     File "/usr/lib/python3.10/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 223, in 
parseString
       parser.Parse(string, True)
   xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 6, column 2

The server in question doesn't have a valid certificate, so you should get a certificate error, not an XML parsing error.

For example, with urllib you get:

   >>> import urllib.request
   >>> urllib.request.urlopen("https://self-signed.badssl.com";)
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     ...
   urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] 
certificate verify failed: self-signed certificate (_ssl.c:997)>


-- System Information:
Architecture: i386

Versions of packages python3-debianbts depends on:
ii  python3-pysimplesoap  1.16.2-5
ii  python3               3.10.6-3

--
Jakub Wilk

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