SB2024080688 - Amazon Linux AMI update for python-lxml

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SB2024080688 - Amazon Linux AMI update for python-lxml

Published: August 6, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024080688
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43818)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the HTML Cleaner in lxml.html. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2309)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the iterwalk() function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References