Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting python2.7 package, versions <2.7.13-2+deb9u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-PYTHON27-469421
  • published28 Sept 2019
  • disclosed28 Sept 2019

Introduced: 28 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16935  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 python2.7 to version 2.7.13-2+deb9u5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python2.7 package and not the python2.7 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The documentation XML-RPC server in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4 has XSS via the server_title field. This occurs in Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py in Python 2.x, and in Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. If set_server_title is called with untrusted input, arbitrary JavaScript can be delivered to clients that visit the http URL for this server.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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