UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10516

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10516

    Published: 23 Oct 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10516
    Aliases:
    USN-3463-1

    Summary:

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the render_full function in debug/tbtools.py in the debugger in Pallets Werkzeug before 0.11.11 (as used in Pallets Flask and other products) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a field that contains an exception message.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10516, http://blog.neargle.com/2016/09/21/flask-src-review-get-a-xss-from-debuger/, https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/pull/1001, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3463-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10516

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python-werkzeug

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-1.1ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.9.4+dfsg-1.1ubuntu2.1

    Affected versions

    0.9.3+dfsg-2ubuntu2
    0.9.4+dfsg-1.1ubuntu1
    0.9.4+dfsg-1.1ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High