CVE-2017-16876

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.1 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-12-29

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Mistune (Mistune Project)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524596
• https://github.com/lepture/mistune/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
• https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/5f06d724bc05580e7f203db2d4a4905fc1127f98
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NUR3GMHQBMA3UC4PFMCK6G…