Vulnerabilites related to fedora-python - lxml_html_clean
cve-2024-52595
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-19 21:27
Modified
2024-11-20 15:19
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
lxml_html_clean is a project for HTML cleaning functionalities copied from `lxml.html.clean`. Prior to version 0.4.0, the HTML Parser in lxml does not properly handle context-switching for special HTML tags such as `<svg>`, `<math>` and `<noscript>`. This behavior deviates from how web browsers parse and interpret such tags. Specifically, content in CSS comments is ignored by lxml_html_clean but may be interpreted differently by web browsers, enabling malicious scripts to bypass the cleaning process. This vulnerability could lead to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, compromising the security of users relying on lxml_html_clean in default configuration for sanitizing untrusted HTML content. Users employing the HTML cleaner in a security-sensitive context should upgrade to lxml 0.4.0, which addresses this issue. As a temporary mitigation, users can configure lxml_html_clean with the following settings to prevent the exploitation of this vulnerability. Via `remove_tags`, one may specify tags to remove - their content is moved to their parents' tags. Via `kill_tags`, one may specify tags to be removed completely. Via `allow_tags`, one may restrict the set of permissible tags, excluding context-switching tags like `<svg>`, `<math>` and `<noscript>`.
References
▼ | URL | Tags |
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https://github.com/fedora-python/lxml_html_clean/security/advisories/GHSA-5jfw-gq64-q45f | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
https://github.com/fedora-python/lxml_html_clean/pull/19 | x_refsource_MISC | |
https://github.com/fedora-python/lxml_html_clean/commit/c5d816f86eb3707d72a8ecf5f3823e0daa1b3808 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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fedora-python | lxml_html_clean |
Version: < 0.4.0 |
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