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openSUSE 15 Security Update : python-lxml (SUSE-SU-2022:3836-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170219

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3836-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2021-28957: Fixed XSS due to missing input sanitization for HTML5 attributes (bsc#1184177).
 - CVE-2020-27783: Fixed XSS due to the use of improper parser (bsc#1179534).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected python2-lxml-doc and / or python3-lxml-doc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179534

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184177

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27783

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28957

http://www.nessus.org/u?eecd300f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170219

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3836-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28957

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27783, CVE-2021-28957

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3836-1