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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-27783: python-lxml security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2020-27783: python-lxml security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/03/2020
Created
03/24/2021
Added
03/24/2021
Modified
03/24/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-python-lxml

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