CVE-2026-6019 (GCVE-0-2026-6019)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-22 19:28
Modified
2026-04-29 15:31
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-150 - Improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control sequences
Summary
http.cookies.Morsel.js_output() returns an inline <script> snippet and only escapes " for JavaScript string context. It does not neutralize the HTML parser-sensitive sequence </script> inside the generated script element. Mitigation base64-encodes the cookie value to disallow escaping using cookie value.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | CPython |
Version: 0 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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