PyPi: Mistune

CVE-2017-16876

Safety vulnerability ID: 36332

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Created at Dec 29, 2017 Updated at Dec 03, 2024

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Advisory

mistune before 0.8.1 has a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the "key" argument.

Affected package

mistune

Latest version: 3.0.2

A sane and fast Markdown parser with useful plugins and renderers

Affected versions

Fixed versions

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

MEDIUM 6.1

CVSS v3 Details

MEDIUM 6.1

Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C): LOW
Integrity Impact (I): LOW
Availability Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 4.3

Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (Au): NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C): NONE
Integrity Impact (I): PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A): NONE