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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-19787): lxml vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-19787): lxml vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/02/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/21/2018
Modified
03/09/2021

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-lxml
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-lxml

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