Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-nss-doc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PYTHONNSSDOC-1460862
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Mar 2021

Introduced: 2 Mar 2021

CVE-2020-25715  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-nss-doc package and not the python-nss-doc package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in pki-core 10.9.0. A specially crafted POST request can be used to reflect a DOM-based cross-site scripting (XSS) attack to inject code into the search query form which can get automatically executed. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.