PYSEC-2018-12
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2018-19787
- Aliases
- GHSA-xp26-p53h-6h2p
Description
An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by "j a v a s c r i p t:" in Internet Explorer. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · lxml | introduced 0, fixed 6be1d081b49c97cfd7b3fbd934a193b668629109 ; introduced 0, fixed 4.2.5 |
References
- https://github.com/lxml/lxml/commit/6be1d081b49c97cfd7b3fbd934a193b668629109 FIX
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00001.html WEB
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3841-2/ WEB
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3841-1/ WEB
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00044.html WEB
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xp26-p53h-6h2p ADVISORY
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database |