GCVE-1-2026-20177 (CVE-2026-73161)
Vulnerability from gna-1 – Published: 2026-08-11 09:07 – Updated: 2026-08-11 09:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
cti-transmute Conversion Table Allows XSS via Unescaped Cell Content During Search Highlighting
Summary
Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted <mark> tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.
The fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as <, >, &, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled <mark> element used for search highlighting.
Severity
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/MISP/cti-transmute/commit/ac49… | patch |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MISP | cti-transmute |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 1.4.0
(semver)
|
Credits
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Sightings
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