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Debian: Security Advisory for python-bleach (DSA-4892-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

3 years ago

Modified

Modified

3 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'python-bleach' package(s) announced via the DSA-4892-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

It was reported that python-bleach, a whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing library, is prone to a mutation XSS vulnerability in bleach.clean when svg or math are in the allowed tags, 'p' or br are in allowed tags, style, title, noscript, script, textarea, noframes, iframe, or xmp are in allowed tags and 'strip_comments=False' is set.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'python-bleach' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.2-0+deb10u2. We recommend that you upgrade your python-bleach packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)