Vulnerability CVE-2018-19787


Published: 2018-12-02

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.

Type:

CWE-79

(Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
LXML -> LXML 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://github.com/lxml/lxml/commit/6be1d081b49c97cfd7b3fbd934a193b668629109
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00001.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3841-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3841-2/

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