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Debian: CVE-2021-23980: python-bleach -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-23980: python-bleach -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/08/2021
Created
04/09/2021
Added
04/08/2021
Modified
03/01/2023

Description

A mutation XSS affects users calling bleach.clean with all of: svg or math in the allowed tags p or br in allowed tags style, title, noscript, script, textarea, noframes, iframe, or xmp in allowed tags the keyword argument strip_comments=False Note: none of the above tags are in the default allowed tags and strip_comments defaults to True.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-python-bleach

References

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