| Name | CVE-2019-17626 |
| Description | ReportLab through 3.5.26 allows remote code execution because of toColor(eval(arg)) in colors.py, as demonstrated by a crafted XML document with '<span color="' followed by arbitrary Python code. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2112-1, DSA-4663-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 942763 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| python-reportlab (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.1.8-3+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 3.3.0-2+deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.3.0-2+deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster | 3.5.13-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 3.5.13-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.5.59-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.6.12-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.1.0-4 | fixed |
| sid | 4.2.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/199/eval-in-colorspy-leads-to-remote-code
Minimal patch in https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/199/eval-in-colorspy-leads-to-remote-code#comment-55887892
but upstream did make the bugreport private.