CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16876
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py in Mistune before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the "key" argument.
Affected configurations
• mistune project mistune (< 0.8.1)
• fedoraproject fedora 26
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524596 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/blob/master/CHANGES.rst Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/5f06d724bc05580e7f203db2d4a4905fc1127f98 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NUR3GMHQBMA3UC4PFMCK6GCLOQC4LQQC/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524596 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/blob/master/CHANGES.rst Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/5f06d724bc05580e7f203db2d4a4905fc1127f98 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NUR3GMHQBMA3UC4PFMCK6GCLOQC4LQQC/ lists.fedoraproject.org