vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4273-1 (CVE-2019-17626): ReportLab vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 16, 2019
Added
Feb 7, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-python-reportlabubuntu-upgrade-python3-reportlab
Title
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