Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1604-1 lxml -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 10 Dec 2018
- Affected Packages:
- lxml
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-19787.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was a XSS injection vulnerability in the LXML HTML/XSS manipulation library for Python.
LXML did not remove "javascript:" URLs that used escaping such as
j a v a s c r i p t
. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.For Debian 8
Jessie
, this issue has been fixed in lxml version 3.4.0-1+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your lxml packages.