Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting mistune package, versions <0.8.1-1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.14% (50th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-MISTUNE-525926
- published 29 Dec 2017
- disclosed 29 Dec 2017
Introduced: 29 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-16876 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16876
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NUR3GMHQBMA3UC4PFMCK6GCLOQC4LQQC/
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/5f06d724bc05580e7f203db2d4a4905fc1127f98
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524596
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-16876
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NUR3GMHQBMA3UC4PFMCK6GCLOQC4LQQC/