CVE-2026-39823

CVE Details

Release Date:	2026-05-07
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

CVE-2026-27142 fixed a vulnerability in which URLs were not correctly escaped inside of a meta tag's content attribute. If the URL content were to insert ASCII whitespaces around the '=' rune inside of the content attribute, the escaper would fail to similarly escape it, leading to XSS.

See more information about CVE-2026-39823 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 metrics

Base Score:	6.1
Vector String:	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Version:	3.1
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None
User Interaction:	Required
Scope:	Changed
Confidentiality Impact:	Low
Integrity Impact:	Low
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 8 (delve)	ELSA-2026-22112	2026-06-02
Oracle Linux version 8 (golang)	ELSA-2026-22112	2026-06-02