Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting platform-python package, versions <0:3.6.8-31.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PLATFORMPYTHON-3832945
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Sept 2019

Introduced: 21 Sep 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 platform-python to version 0:3.6.8-31.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:4433.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python package and not the platform-python package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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 Scores

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