Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting mistune package, versions <0.8.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-MISTUNE-525926
  • published29 Dec 2017
  • disclosed29 Dec 2017

Introduced: 29 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-16876  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 mistune to version 0.8.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mistune package and not the mistune package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.