CVE-2026-40472
Essential information
- Published
- 23/04/2026 16:16
- Modified
- 24/04/2026 14:41
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 9.9 CRITICAL (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L—
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
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- Access complexity
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- LOW
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- HIGH
- Integrity impact
- HIGH
- Availability impact
- LOW
- Exploit code maturity
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Attack requirements
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (V)
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- Availability (S)
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- Exploit maturity
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Description
In hackage-server, user-controlled metadata from .cabal files are rendered into HTML
href attributes without proper sanitization, enabling stored
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- 74b3a70d-cca6-4d34-9789-e83b222ae3be
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| hackage-server / hackage-server | cpe:2.3:a:hackage-server:hackage-server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |