Critical (9.8). EPSS 6.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in reportlab 3.5.31.
paraparser in ReportLab before 3.5.31 allows remote code execution because start_unichar in paraparser.py evaluates untrusted user input in a unichar element in a crafted XML document with '<unichar code="' followed by arbitrary Python code, a similar issue to CVE-2019-17626.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
6.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)