PyPi: Reportlab

CVE-2019-17626

Safety vulnerability ID: 37572

This vulnerability was reviewed by experts

The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Oct 16, 2019 Updated at Dec 10, 2024

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Advisory

ReportLab 3.5.34 includes a fix for CVE-2019-17626: Remote code execution vulnerability because of toColor(eval(arg)) in colors.py, as demonstrated by a crafted XML document with '<span color="' followed by arbitrary Python code.

Affected package

reportlab

Latest version: 4.2.5

The Reportlab Toolkit

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

ReportLab through 3.5.26 allows remote code execution because of toColor(eval(arg)) in colors.py, as demonstrated by a crafted XML document with '<span color="' followed by arbitrary Python code.

MISC:https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/199/eval-in-colorspy-leads-to-remote-code: https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/199/eval-in-colorspy-leads-to-remote-code
MISC:https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/default/CHANGES.md: https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/default/CHANGES.md

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

CRITICAL 9.8

CVSS v3 Details

CRITICAL 9.8

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

CVSS v2 Details

HIGH 7.5

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