FKIE_CVE-2019-19450

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-09-20 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:26
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/MrBitBucket/reportlab-mirror/blob/master/CHANGES.mdRelease Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00037.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHMCB2GJQKFMGVO5RWHN222NQL5XYPHZ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HADPTB3SBU7IVRMDK7OL6WSQRU5AFWDZ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://pastebin.com/5MicRrr4Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/MrBitBucket/reportlab-mirror/blob/master/CHANGES.mdRelease Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00037.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHMCB2GJQKFMGVO5RWHN222NQL5XYPHZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HADPTB3SBU7IVRMDK7OL6WSQRU5AFWDZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHMCB2GJQKFMGVO5RWHN222NQL5XYPHZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HADPTB3SBU7IVRMDK7OL6WSQRU5AFWDZ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pastebin.com/5MicRrr4Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
reportlab reportlab *
debian debian_linux 10.0
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