UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16876

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16876
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16876.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16876
Upstream
Published
2017-12-29T15:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:30Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / mistune

Package

Name
mistune
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mistune@0.7.1-1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.6-2
0.7.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "python-mistune",
            "binary_version": "0.7.1-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-mistune",
            "binary_version": "0.7.1-1"
        }
    ]
}