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.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
ubuntu_linux | eq | 16.04 | |
ubuntu_linux | eq | 14.04 | |
ubuntu_linux | eq | 12.04 | |
ubuntu_linux | eq | 18.04 | |
debian_linux | eq | 8.0 | |
lxml | lt | 4.2.5 |