Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting reportlab package, versions [,3.5.31)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.91% (84th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-REPORTLAB-5914925
- published 22 Sep 2023
- disclosed 20 Sep 2023
- credit Ravi Prakash Giri
Introduced: 20 Sep 2023
CVE-2019-19450 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade reportlab to version 3.5.31 or higher.
Overview
reportlab is a Python library for generating PDFs and graphics.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via the paraparser.py function. An attacker can inject malicious input in a unichar element in a crafted XML document.
Note: This is only exploitable if the attacker uses a crafted malicious html 'unichar' tag input and then uses the feature to generate a pdf of the document.
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