Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py in Mistune before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the "key" argument.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py in Mistune before 0.8.1     allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the key     argument. (CVE-2017-16876)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the _keyify function in mistune.py in Mistune before 0.8.1
    allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging failure to escape the "key"
    argument. (CVE-2017-16876)

This update for python-mistune to version 0.8.3 fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-16876: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability     in the _keyify function in mistune.py allowed remote     attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by     leveraging failure to escape the 'key' argument     (bsc#1072307).

  - CVE-2017-15612: Prevent XSS via an unexpected newline     (such as in java\nscript:) or a crafted email address,     related to the escape and autolink functions     (bsc#1064640).

These non-security issues were fixed :

  - Fix nested html issue

  - Fix _keyify with lower case.

  - Remove non breaking spaces preprocessing

  - Remove rev and rel attribute for footnotes

  - Fix escape_link method 

  - Handle block HTML with no content 

  - Use expandtabs for tab

  - Fix escape option for text renderer

  - Fix HTML attribute regex pattern

  - Fix strikethrough regex

  - Fix HTML attribute regex

  - Fix close tag regex

  - Fix hard_wrap options on renderer.

  - Fix emphasis regex pattern

  - Fix base64 image link 

  - Fix link security per

  - Fix inline html when there is no content per

Update to 0.8.3, fixing CVE-2017-15612 and CVE-2017-16876

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
255963	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-16876	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
422502	SCA: security update for mistune (GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
422502	SCA: security update for mistune (GHSA-98gj-wwxm-cj3h)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
106703	openSUSE Security Update : python-mistune (openSUSE-2018-148)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
105846	Fedora 27 : python-mistune (2017-2eefd424bd)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
105474	Fedora 26 : python-mistune (2017-7b4149911a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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