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SUSE: CVE-2020-27783: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/03/2020
Created
03/14/2022
Added
03/12/2022
Modified
03/18/2022

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)

  • suse-upgrade-python-lxml
  • suse-upgrade-python2-lxml
  • suse-upgrade-python2-lxml-devel
  • suse-upgrade-python3-lxml
  • suse-upgrade-python3-lxml-devel

References

  • SUSE-SU-2022:0803-1
  • SUSE-SU-2022:0895-1
  • CVE-2020-27783
  • USN-4666-1
  • USN-4666-2

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