CVE-2010-2477

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

Pythonpaste Paste: through 1.7.3.1; 0.1.0, 0.3, 0.4.1, 0.5, 0.9.1, 0.9.2 (+15)

References

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

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