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CVE-2017-16876

medium

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.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NUR3GMHQBMA3UC4PFMCK6GCLOQC4LQQC/

https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/5f06d724bc05580e7f203db2d4a4905fc1127f98

https://github.com/lepture/mistune/blob/master/CHANGES.rst

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524596

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-29

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Severity: Medium