CVE-2019-16935
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.1 Medium
- Published
- Sep 28, 2019
- Updated
- Oct 7, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 28, 2019
Description
The documentation XML-RPC server in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4 has XSS via the server_title field. This occurs in Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py in Python 2.x, and in Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. If set_server_title is called with untrusted input, arbitrary JavaScript can be delivered to clients that visit the http URL for this server.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.1 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- USN-4151-1vendor-advisory
- USN-4151-2vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2389vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2393vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2438vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2453vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-0d3fcae639vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-74ba24605evendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-b06ec6159bvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-758824a3ffvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-d202cda4f8vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-57462fa10dvendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-7ec5bb5d22vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2019-a268ba7b23vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0086vendor-advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://bugs.python.org/issue38243
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16373
- https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e007860b8b3609ce0bc62b1780efaa06241520bd/Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py#L213
- https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/35c0809158be7feae4c4f877a08b93baea2d8291/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py#L897
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191017-0004/
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200715 [SECURITY] [DLA 2280-1] python3.5 security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20210417 [SECURITY] [DLA 2628-1] python2.7 security updatemailing-list
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