CVE-2017-16876 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0058.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Mistune Project	Mistune

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mistune_project:mistune:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524596
https://github.com/lepture/mistune/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/5f06d724bc05580e7f203db2d4a4905fc1127f98
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NUR3GMHQBMA3UC4PFMCK6GCLOQC4LQQC/

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-29T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:35:21.320Z

Reserved: 2017-11-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-16876

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-12-29T15:29:00.610

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-16876

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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