Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting cilium-cli package, versions <0.19.2-r11


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-WOLFILATEST-CILIUMCLI-16639611
  • published11 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 Wolfi cilium-cli to version 0.19.2-r11 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cilium-cli package and not the cilium-cli package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi 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.