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CVE-2019-19450 (GCVE-0-2019-19450)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 02:16
VLAI
Summary
paraparser in ReportLab before 3.5.31 allows remote code execution because start_unichar in paraparser.py evaluates untrusted user input in a unichar element in a crafted XML document with '<unichar code="' followed by arbitrary Python code, a similar issue to CVE-2019-17626.
CWE
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