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EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : python-lxml (EulerOS-SA-2021-1166)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145738

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the python-lxml packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused different behaviors between the sanitizer and the user's page. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to run arbitrary HTML/JS code.(CVE-2020-27783)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected python-lxml package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?eca9a074

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145738

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1166.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 2/1/2021

Updated: 1/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27783

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-lxml, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python2-lxml, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python3-lxml, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27783