Bug 2546722

Summary: CVE-2026-78847 fcitx5: gray-matter: arbitrary code execution via eval in front matter parsing [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: aedmond
Component: fcitx5Assignee: Qiyu Yan <yanqiyu01>
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Description aedmond 2026-10-06 17:50:31 UTC
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An issue in gray-matter All versions (verified on 4.0.3) allows the JavaScript engine in lib/engines.js using eval() to parse front matter when language is js/javascript.This allows arbitrary code execution.