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CVE-2019-17626ReportLab through 3.5.26 allows remote code execution because of toColor(eval(arg)) in colors.py, as demonstrated by a crafted XML…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 9.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.5% · top 4.5% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIreportlabGHSA-qpg2-vx7j-3869 (opens in a new tab)
References
References14
- https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/199/eval-in-colorspy-leads-to-remote-code (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/default/CHANGES.md (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0197 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0195 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-d2fb999600 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0230 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0201 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-f3e0ba2f79 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0160 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- USN-4273-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200220 [SECURITY] [DLA 2112-1] python-reportlab security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- DSA-4663 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202007-35 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240719-0006/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0122 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qpg2-vx7j-3869 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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