USN-4896-1: lxml vulnerability
30 March 2021
lxml could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Releases
Packages
- lxml - pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries
Details
It was discovered that lxml incorrectly handled certain HTML attributes. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross-site
scripting (XSS) attacks.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 20.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-4896-2: python3-lxml, lxml, python-lxml-doc, python-lxml