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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-17626: ReportLab: Arbitrary code execution

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-17626: ReportLab: Arbitrary code execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/16/2019
Created
07/28/2020
Added
07/28/2020
Modified
07/28/2020

Description

ReportLab through 3.5.26 allows remote code execution because of toColor(eval(arg)) in colors.py, as demonstrated by a crafted XML document with '<span color="' followed by arbitrary Python code.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-python-reportlab

References

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