Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mistune  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-MISTUNE-1027492
  • published19 Oct 2017
  • disclosed19 Oct 2017

Introduced: 19 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15612  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

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

mistune.py in Mistune 0.7.4 allows XSS via an unexpected newline (such as in java\nscript:) or a crafted email address, related to the escape and autolink functions.