vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-19787: Security patch for python-lxml (ALAS-2023-1956)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 2, 2018
Added
Feb 14, 2025
Modified
Feb 14, 2025

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.

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-lxmlamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-lxml-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-lxml-docs
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