DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27783

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-27783
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JSON Data
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Upstream
Published
2020-12-03T17:15:13Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:28Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

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
4.6.2-1

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
4.6.2-1

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
4.6.2-1

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
4.6.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}