XML Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-reportlab  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-PYTHONREPORTLAB-527284
  • published16 Oct 2019
  • disclosed16 Oct 2019

Introduced: 16 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17626  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-91  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

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

ReportLab through 3.5.26 allows remote code execution because of toColor(eval(arg)) in colors.py, as demonstrated by a crafted XML document with '<span color="' followed by arbitrary Python code.