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PYSEC-2010-29

Quick fix

PYSEC-2010-29 — paste: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'paste>=1.7.4'

Details

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the paste.httpexceptions implementation in Paste before 1.7.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a 404 status code, related to (1) paste.urlparser.StaticURLParser, (2) paste.urlparser.PkgResourcesParser, (3) paste.urlmap.URLMap, and (4) HTTPNotFound.

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Affected packages

PyPI/paste

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.7.4

Fixpip install --upgrade 'paste>=1.7.4'

References

http://pylonshq.com/articles/archives/2010/6/paste_174_released_addresses_xss_security_hole[WEB]
http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/msg/8c256dc076a408d8?dmode=source&output=gplain[WEB]
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127792576822169&w=2[WEB]
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127785414818815&w=2[WEB]
http://bitbucket.org/ianb/paste/changeset/fcae59df8b56[WEB]
http://secunia.com/advisories/42500[ADVISORY]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41160[WEB]
http://groups.google.com/group/paste-users/browse_thread/thread/3b3fff3dadd0b1e5?pli=1[WEB]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1026-1[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7gfc-2v6g-6w9f[ADVISORY]