CVE-2019-17626

CRITICAL

Reportlab < 3.5.26 - Remote Code Execution

Title source: rule

Description

ReportLab through 3.5.26 allows remote code execution because of toColor(eval(arg)) in colors.py, as demonstrated by a crafted XML document with '<span color="' followed by arbitrary Python code.

References (14)

[Vendor Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0197

[Vendor Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0195

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZZPHP2BJSTP4IYCSJRQINP763IHO6ASL/

[Vendor Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0230

[Vendor Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0201

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NSCTOE3DITFICY2XKBYZ5WAF5TSQ52DM/

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00002.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4273-1/

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00019.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4663

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-35

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/199/eval-in-colorspy-leads-to-remote-code

[Release Notes, Third Party Advisory] https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/default/CHANGES.md

[Vendor Advisory] https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240719-0006/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.1684

EPSS Percentile 95.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-91

Status published

Products (2)

pypi/reportlab 0 - 3.5.28PyPI

reportlab/reportlab < 3.5.26

Published Oct 16, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026