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CVE-2019-17626

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 10.2% (pctl 96)

Patch early

EPSS 10.2% — above the 10% action threshold.

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.

Scoring

CVSS9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS10.23% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs
WeaknessCWE-91
On CISA KEVno
Public exploitnone known
Published2019-10-16
Last modified2026-06-17

Affected (1)

VendorProduct
reportlabreportlab

References

→ the Explorer  ·  watch your stack  ·  NVD