cve/2019/CVE-2019-16935.md

CVE-2019-16935

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://bugs.python.org/issue38243
• https://bugs.python.org/issue38243
• https://hackerone.com/reports/705420
• https://hackerone.com/reports/705420
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Github

• https://github.com/phonito/phonito-vulnerable-container