Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4643-1 python-bleach -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 20 Mar 2020
- Affected Packages:
- python-bleach
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 954236.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-6816. - More information:
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It was reported that python-bleach, a whitelist-based HTML-sanitizing library, is prone to a mutation XSS vulnerability in bleach.clean when strip=False and
math
orsvg
tags and one or more of the RCDATA tags were whitelisted.For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.2-0+deb10u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your python-bleach packages.
For the detailed security status of python-bleach please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/python-bleach