CVE-2018-19787 (GCVE-0-2018-19787)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-02 10:00 – Updated: 2025-12-18 15:15
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3841-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3841-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/lxml/lxml/commit/6be1d081b49c9… x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public ?
2018-12-02 00:00
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