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SUSE: CVE-2017-16876: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-16876: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/09/2018
Modified
02/09/2018

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py in Mistune before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the "key" argument.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-python-mistune
  • suse-upgrade-python3-mistune

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