CVE-2019-16935
mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.047 · 92 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The documentation XML-RPC server in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4 has XSS via the server_title field. This occurs in Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py in Python 2.x, and in Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. If set_server_title is called with untrusted input, arbitrary JavaScript can be delivered to clients that visit the http URL for this server.
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affected products (38)
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advisories (3)
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- WID-SEC-W-2024-1595Python: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Cross-Site ScriptingDeutsch2019-09-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Python ausnutzen, um einen Cross-Site Scripting Angriff durchzuführen.
- WID-SEC-W-2025-0227IBM QRadar SIEM: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2021-11-30csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM QRadar SIEM ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erweitern, Administratorrechte zu erlangen, beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Informationen offenzulegen, Dateien zu manipulieren oder Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
- PSF-2019-6Reflected XSS in DocXMLRPCServer2019-09-28vendor · osvUS
The documentation XML-RPC server in Python through 2.7.16, 3.x through 3.6.9, and 3.7.x through 3.7.4 has XSS via the server_title field. This occurs in Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py in Python 2.x, and in Lib/xmlrpc/server.py in Python 3.x. If set_server_title is called with untrusted input, arbitrary JavaScript can be delivered to clients that visit the http URL for this server.
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references (126)
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00062.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00063.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00012.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00021.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.htmlcnnvd
- https://bugs.python.org/issue38243cnnvd
- https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/35c0809158be7feae4c4f877a08b93baea2d8291/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py#L897cnnvd
- https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e007860b8b3609ce0bc62b1780efaa06241520bd/Lib/DocXMLRPCServer.py#L213cnnvd
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