RHSA-2022:1932 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: python-lxml security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 10, 2022
Updated · November 2, 2026
Topic
An update for python-lxml is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
lxml is an XML processing library providing access to libxml2 and libxslt libraries using the Python ElementTree API.
Security Fix(es):
- python-lxml: HTML Cleaner allows crafted and SVG embedded scripts to pass through (CVE-2021-43818)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.