GHSA-9P42-C923-P9C9
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-11 09:32 – Updated: 2026-08-11 09:32Affected 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 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 element used for search highlighting.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-73161"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-79"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-08-11T09:17:15Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "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 \u003cmark\u003e 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.\n\nThe fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as \u003c, \u003e, \u0026, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled \u003cmark\u003e element used for search highlighting.",
"id": "GHSA-9p42-c923-p9c9",
"modified": "2026-08-11T09:32:36Z",
"published": "2026-08-11T09:32:36Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73161"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/MISP/cti-transmute/commit/ac495641ef3ca927676a73ba8f1bcdfd952413df"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
]
}
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