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CVE-2019-17626

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-91

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.

Affected products

• Reportlab: through 3.5.26

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00002.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0195
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0197
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0201
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0230
• https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/199/eval-in-colorspy-leads-to-remote-code
• https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/default/CHANGES.md
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00019.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NSCTOE3DITFICY2XKBYZ5WAF5TSQ52DM/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZZPHP2BJSTP4IYCSJRQINP763IHO6ASL/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-35
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240719-0006/

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