GHSA-hpv5-v8g5-c864

Cross-site Scripting in Mistune

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2017-15612

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	mistune	< 0.8	0.8

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

mistune.py in Mistune 0.7.4 allows XSS via an unexpected newline (such as in java\nscript:) or a crafted email address, related to the escape and autolink functions.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15612 advisory
https://github.com/lepture/mistune/pull/140 web
https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/d6f0b6402299bf5a380e7b4e77bd80e8736630fe web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hpv5-v8g5-c864 advisory
https://github.com/lepture/mistune package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mistune/PYSEC-2017-80.yaml web