Bug 1925252 (CVE-2021-23980) - CVE-2021-23980 python-bleach: Mutation cross-site scripting in bleach.clean
Summary: CVE-2021-23980 python-bleach: Mutation cross-site scripting in bleach.clean
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2021-23980
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1925254 1925253 Red Hat1925257 Red Hat1932063 Red Hat1944800
Blocks: Embargoed1925255
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Reported: 2021-02-04 17:15 UTC by Michael Kaplan
Modified: 2022-08-30 12:14 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: python-bleach 3.3.0
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Description Michael Kaplan 2021-02-04 17:15:09 UTC 
A mutation XSS affects users calling bleach.clean with all of:

- svg or math in the allowed tags
- p or br in allowed tags
- style in allowed tags
- the keyword argument strip_comments=False

Note: none of the above tags are in the default allowed tags and strip_comments defaults to True.
Comment 1 Michael Kaplan 2021-02-04 17:15:13 UTC 
External References:

https://github.com/mozilla/bleach/security/advisories/GHSA-vv2x-vrpj-qqpq
Comment 2 Michael Kaplan 2021-02-04 17:15:33 UTC 
Created python-bleach tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1925254]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1925253]
Comment 5 Tapas Jena 2021-03-30 17:11:42 UTC 
Reducing the impact of the vulnerability on Ansible Automation Platform from Medium to Low as the affected functionality of the Python bleach is not enabled by default.
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