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Medium RLSA-2021:1898 1 CVE

Moderate: python-lxml security update

Published May 18, 2021 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

lxml is an XML processing library providing access to libxml2 and libxslt libraries using the Python ElementTree API.

Security Fix(es):

* python-lxml: mXSS due to the use of improper parser (CVE-2020-27783)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 python-lxml 0:4.2.3-2.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.1

    lxml vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

    A XSS vulnerability was discovered in python-lxml's clean module. The module's parser didn't properly imitate browsers, which caused different behaviors between the sanitizer and the user's page. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to run arbitrary HTML…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901633