DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11888

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-11888
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11888.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11888
Upstream
Published
2020-04-20T16:15:14.430Z
Modified
2025-11-19T02:04:40.075185Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

python-markdown2 through 2.3.8 allows XSS because element names are mishandled unless a \w+ match succeeds. For example, an attack might use elementname@ or elementname- with an onclick attribute.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / python-markdown2

Package

Name
python-markdown2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-markdown2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.3.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11888.json"

Debian:12 / python-markdown2

Package

Name
python-markdown2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-markdown2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.3.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11888.json"

Debian:13 / python-markdown2

Package

Name
python-markdown2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-markdown2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.3.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11888.json"

Debian:14 / python-markdown2

Package

Name
python-markdown2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/python-markdown2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.3.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11888.json"