Bug 2327501 (CVE-2024-52595) - CVE-2024-52595 python-lxml-html-clean: HTML Cleaner allows crafted scripts in special contexts like svg or math to pass through
Summary: CVE-2024-52595 python-lxml-html-clean: HTML Cleaner allows crafted scripts in...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-52595
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2327558
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Reported: 2024-11-19 22:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-11-20 15:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-19 22:01:19 UTC
lxml_html_clean is a project for HTML cleaning functionalities copied from `lxml.html.clean`. Prior to version 0.4.0, the HTML Parser in lxml does not properly handle context-switching for special HTML tags such as `<svg>`, `<math>` and `<noscript>`. This behavior deviates from how web browsers parse and interpret such tags. Specifically, content in CSS comments is ignored by lxml_html_clean but may be interpreted differently by web browsers, enabling malicious scripts to bypass the cleaning process. This vulnerability could lead to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, compromising the security of users relying on lxml_html_clean in default configuration for sanitizing untrusted HTML content. Users employing the HTML cleaner in a security-sensitive context should upgrade to lxml 0.4.0, which addresses this issue. As a temporary mitigation, users can configure lxml_html_clean with the following settings to prevent the exploitation of this vulnerability. Via `remove_tags`, one may specify tags to remove - their content is moved to their parents' tags. Via `kill_tags`, one may specify tags to be removed completely. Via `allow_tags`, one may restrict the set of permissible tags, excluding context-switching tags like `<svg>`, `<math>` and `<noscript>`.


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