Advisories ยป MGASA-2021-0038

Updated python-lxml packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Jan 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-27783

Description

A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's
parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused different behaviors
between the sanitizer and the user's page. A remote attacker could exploit
this flaw to run arbitrary HTML/JS code. (CVE-2020-27783).
                

References

SRPMS

7/core