Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting hawk2 package, versions <2.7.2+git.1788518533.7d4dadd6-160000.1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-HAWK2-21355581
  • published21 Oct 2026
  • disclosed9 Oct 2026

Introduced: 9 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-73648  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 hawk2 to version 2.7.2+git.1788518533.7d4dadd6-160000.1.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hawk2 package and not the hawk2 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. From 1.0.3 until 1.7.1, Rails::HTML::PermitScrubber restricted SVG reference elements in SVG_ALLOW_LOCAL_HREF only when they used xlink:href, even though browsers also accept the plain href attribute. Applications with non-default allowed tags that included SVG use or feImage elements could therefore permit external references; a same-origin external SVG referenced by use could execute scripts in the sanitized document's context, while feImage could load external images for tracking. Applications using the default allowed tags are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.1.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1