CVE-2017-16876

MEDIUM

Mistune <0.8.1 - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py in Mistune before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the "key" argument.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/lepture/mistune/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524596

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 45.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
fedoraproject/fedora 26
mistune_project/mistune < 0.8.1
pypi/mistune 0 - 0.8.1PyPI
Published Dec 29, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026