Bug 2520439 - CVE-2026-65911 cachelib: DOMPurify: Cross-site scripting due to state leakage in sanitization. [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-65911 cachelib: DOMPurify: Cross-site scripting due to state leakage...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cachelib
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
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Assignee: Michel Lind
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Blocks: CVE-FalsePositive-Unshipped CVE-2026-65911
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Reported: 2026-08-20 16:01 UTC by Ganesh
Modified: 2026-08-21 21:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-08-21 21:08:42 UTC
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Description Ganesh 2026-08-20 16:01:23 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

In DOMPurify through 3.3.3, function predicates supplied via ADD_ATTR or ADD_TAGS to DOMPurify.sanitize() persist in internal state (EXTRA_ELEMENT_HANDLING) across subsequent sanitize() calls on the same instance. If a later call on the same instance provides ADD_ATTR or ADD_TAGS as an array rather than a function, the previously set function handler is neither cleared nor overwritten, so it continues to approve attacker-controlled attributes or tags. This can allow dangerous event-handler attributes or forbidden tags (bypassing FORBID_TAGS) to survive sanitization, resulting in cross-site scripting. The vendor (Cure53) considers this an edge case outside DOMPurify's threat model; the referenced advisory lists 3.4.0 as the patched version.

Comment 1 Michel Lind 2026-08-21 21:08:42 UTC
This CVE is in a JavaScript/NodeJS package; the JavaScript here is not shipped in the binary RPMs.


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