Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting istio-pilot-agent-1.28-compat package, versions <1.28.6-r2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-ISTIOPILOTAGENT128COMPAT-16668518
  • published14 May 2026
  • disclosed7 May 2026

Introduced: 7 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-39823  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest istio-pilot-agent-1.28-compat to version 1.28.6-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream istio-pilot-agent-1.28-compat package and not the istio-pilot-agent-1.28-compat package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.