CVE-2019-16935 (NVD)

2019-09-28

The documentation XML-RPC server in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4 has XSS via the server_title field. This occurs in Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py in Python 2.x, and in Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. If set_server_title is called with untrusted input, arbitrary JavaScript can be delivered to clients that visit the http URL for this server.

Products Ubuntu_linux, Debian_linux, Python
Type Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links • https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e007860b8b3609ce0bc62b1780efaa06241520bd/Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py#L213
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191017-0004/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K7HNVIFMETMFWWWUNTB72KYJYXCZOS5V/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00012.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/COATURTCY7G67AYI6UDV5B2JZTBCKIDX/