Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting lxml package, versions [,4.2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LXML-72651
  • published3 Dec 2018
  • disclosed2 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19787  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lxml to version 4.2.5 or higher.

Overview

lxml is a Pythonic, mature binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Due to an improper escaping, an attacker could perform XSS attack in Internet Explorer.

Details

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