Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-27783
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- cbl2 python-lxml 4.8.0-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 python-lxml 4.6.3-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 4.6.3-1 |
| — | Security Update | 4.8.0-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-27783
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.1 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused different behaviors between the sanitizer and the user's page. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to run arbitrary HTML/JS code.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-27783, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).