CVE-2018-19787
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-02 10:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:44
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by "j a v a s c r i p t:" in Internet Explorer. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/lxml/lxml/commit/6be1d081b49c97cfd7b3fbd934a193b668629109Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00044.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3841-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3841-2/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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