USN-2217-1: lxml vulnerability
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
05/14/2014
07/25/2018
05/22/2014
07/09/2020
Description
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the lxml.html.clean module in lxml before 3.3.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via control characters in the link scheme to the clean_html function.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-python-lxml
- ubuntu-upgrade-python3-lxml
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