DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19787

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19787
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19787.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19787
Upstream
Published
2018-12-02T10:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:33Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by "j a v a s c r i p t:" in Internet Explorer. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / lxml

Package

Name
lxml
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lxml?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.2.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / lxml

Package

Name
lxml
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lxml?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.2.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / lxml

Package

Name
lxml
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lxml?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.2.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / lxml

Package

Name
lxml
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lxml?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.2.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}