CVE-2019-17626

critical

Description

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4663

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4273-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240719-0006/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-35

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZZPHP2BJSTP4IYCSJRQINP763IHO6ASL/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NSCTOE3DITFICY2XKBYZ5WAF5TSQ52DM/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00019.html

https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/default/CHANGES.md

https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/199/eval-in-colorspy-leads-to-remote-code

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0230

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0201

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0197

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0195

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-16

Updated: 2024-08-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.3

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