Ubuntu USN · USN-8247-1

OWSLib vulnerability

Published: Thu, 07 May 2026 11:44

CVE-2023-27476

Summary

OWSLib could be made to expose sensitive information.

Details

It was discovered that OWSLib did not properly disable entity resolution within its XML parser. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML payload.

Recommended actions per Ubuntu release

StackPatch playbook auto-generated per release codename and per affected package.

Ubuntu bionic

owslib→0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y owslib=0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
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python-owslib→0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python-owslib=0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
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python3-owslib→0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python3-owslib=0.16.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
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Ubuntu focal

owslib→0.19.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.19.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y owslib=0.19.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
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python3-owslib→0.19.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.19.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python3-owslib=0.19.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
Sign up at https://ubuntu.com/pro. Free for personal + small-team use.

Ubuntu jammy

owslib→0.25.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.25.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y owslib=0.25.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
Sign up at https://ubuntu.com/pro. Free for personal + small-team use.
python3-owslib→0.25.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.25.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python3-owslib=0.25.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
Sign up at https://ubuntu.com/pro. Free for personal + small-team use.

Ubuntu xenial

owslib→0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y owslib=0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
Sign up at https://ubuntu.com/pro. Free for personal + small-team use.
python-owslib→0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python-owslib=0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
Sign up at https://ubuntu.com/pro. Free for personal + small-team use.
python3-owslib→0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1apt_upgrade_esm
Fixed at 0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 — ESM-only. Enable Ubuntu Pro (free for 5 personal machines) or treat as watch item.
```
sudo pro attach <token>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y python3-owslib=0.10.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
```
Sign up at https://ubuntu.com/pro. Free for personal + small-team use.

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