Bug 2494608

Summary: CVE-2026-42506 gum: golang.org/x/net/html: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via arbitrary HTML parsing [epel-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: jkelly <jkelly>
Component: gumAssignee: Carl George 🤠 <carlwgeorge>
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Description jkelly 2026-06-29 19:16:08 UTC 
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Parsing arbitrary HTML which is then rendered using Render can result in an unexpected HTML tree. This can be leveraged to execute XSS attacks in applications that attempt to sanitize input HTML before rendering.