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Medium USN-3463-1 1 CVE

python-werkzeug vulnerability

Published Oct 25, 2017 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Werkzeug did not properly handle certain
web scripts. A remote attacker could use this to inject arbitrary
code via a field that contains an exception message.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS python-werkzeug 0.9.4+dfsg-1.1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS python-werkzeug 0.10.4+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2016-10516

    Pallets Werkzeug cross-site scripting vulnerability

    Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the render_full function in debug/tbtools.py in the debugger in Pallets Werkzeug before 0.11.11 (as used in Pallets Flask and other products) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a fiel…

    werkzeug python-werkzeug python-werkzeug Debian Ubuntu PyPI

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10516