Arbitrary File Write Affecting lxml package, versions [,4.4.0)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-LXML-1047474
- published 1 Dec 2020
- disclosed 1 Dec 2020
- credit Unknown
How to fix?
Upgrade lxml to version 4.4.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write. When writing to file paths that contain the URL escape character '%', the file path could wrongly be mangled by URL unescaping and thus write to a different file or directory.
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