CRITICAL 9.8

PYSEC-2026-522

ReportLab vulnerable to remote code execution via paraparser

Details

paraparser in ReportLab before 3.5.31 allows remote code execution because start_unichar in paraparser.py evaluates untrusted user input in a unichar element in a crafted XML document with '<unichar code="' followed by arbitrary Python code, a similar issue to CVE-2019-17626.

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Affected packages

PyPI / reportlab

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 3.5.31

Fix pip install --upgrade 'reportlab>=3.5.31'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19450 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/MrBitBucket/reportlab-mirror/blob/master/CHANGES.md [WEB]
https://github.com/MrBitBucket/reportlab-mirror/blob/master/CHANGES.md#release-353115102019 [WEB]
https://hg.reportlab.com/hg-public/reportlab [PACKAGE]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00037.html [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHMCB2GJQKFMGVO5RWHN222NQL5XYPHZ [WEB]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HADPTB3SBU7IVRMDK7OL6WSQRU5AFWDZ [WEB]
https://pastebin.com/5MicRrr4 [WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/reportlab [PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pj98-2xf6-cff5 [ADVISORY]