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USN-1026-1: Python Paste vulnerability

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USN-1026-1: Python Paste vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/05/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the paste.httpexceptions implementation in Paste before 1.7.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a 404 status code, related to (1) paste.urlparser.StaticURLParser, (2) paste.urlparser.PkgResourcesParser, (3) paste.urlmap.URLMap, and (4) HTTPNotFound.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-paste

References

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