CVE-2018-19787

An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5

Medium · published December 2, 2018

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
2%
Percentile
84.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5. lxml/html/clean.py in the lxml.html.clean module does not remove javascript: URLs that use escaping, allowing a remote attacker to conduct XSS attacks, as demonstrated by "j a v a s c r i p t:" in Internet Explorer. This is a similar issue to CVE-2014-3146.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02438 · 84.1th percentile
Published
2018-12-02T10:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 DEC 10:00Z
    An issue was discovered in lxml before 4.2.5
    cvelistv5