What is GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h?

GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. mistune Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h cover?

GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2017-16876. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h?

GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h?

GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h affects 1 product, including: pip/mistune:\u003c 0.8.1.

GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3hMediumCVSS 6.1

mistune Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

January 4, 2019

Last Modified

September 24, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2017-16876 →

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

pip/mistune:< 0.8.1

🔗 References (7)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16876
https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/5f06d724bc05580e7f203db2d4a4905fc1127f98
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524596
https://github.com/lepture/mistune/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mistune/PYSEC-2017-18.yaml
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NUR3GMHQBMA3UC4PFMCK6GCLOQC4LQQC
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h