CVE-2014-3146 (GCVE-0-2014-3146)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-05-14 19:00
Modified
2025-12-17 21:03
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the lxml.html.clean module in lxml before 3.3.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via control characters in the link scheme to the clean_html function.
References
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2941 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lxml.de/3.3/changes-3.3.5.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/09/7 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2217-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/lxml/2014-April/007128.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/58744 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0218.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67159 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:112 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/58013 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/210 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/59008 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00083.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/319 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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