Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python3-docutils  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.65% (91st percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-PYTHON3DOCUTILS-3222411
  • published5 Jan 2023
  • disclosed28 Sept 2019

Introduced: 28 Sep 2019

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

Amendment

The Rocky-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Rocky-Linux:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-docutils package and not the python3-docutils package as distributed by Rocky-Linux.

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