Security advisory
The csaf_provider package before 0.8.2 allows XSS via a crafted CSAF document uploaded as text/html. The endpoint upload allows valid CSAF advisories (JSON format) to be uploaded with Content-Type text/html and filenames ending in .html. When subsequently accessed via web browser, these advisories are served and interpreted as HTML pages. Such uploaded advisories can contain JavaScript code that will execute within the browser context of users inspecting the advisory.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-43996
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 08:56 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The csaf_provider package before 0.8.2 allows XSS via a crafted CSAF document uploaded as text/html. The endpoint upload allows valid CSAF advisories (JSON format) to be uploaded with Content-Type text/html and filenames ending in .html. When subsequently accessed via web browser, these advisories are served and interpreted as HTML pages. Such uploaded advisories can contain JavaScript code that will execute within the browser context of users inspecting the advisory.
osv:CVE-2022-43996
Complete source record
{
"id": "f6d824102be495fed9c64cbd632c813eb94ed5adfec1b1b0ebad2d07d74b5a83",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-43996",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2022-43996",
"summary": "The csaf_provider package before 0.8.2 allows XSS via a crafted CSAF document uploaded as text/html. The endpoint upload allows valid CSAF advisories (JSON format) to be uploaded with Content-Type text/html and filenames ending in .html. When subsequently accessed via web browser, these advisories are served and interpreted as HTML pages. Such uploaded advisories can contain JavaScript code that will execute within the browser context of users inspecting the advisory.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-43996",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2022-43996",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-43996",
"GHSA-xxfx-w2rw-gh63",
"GO-2022-1164"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/gocsaf/csaf",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "17f22855ee8d4270dd17ff748c30ed7304846fdc"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:csaf_provider_project:csaf_provider:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"source": "CPE_RANGE",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.8.2"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"v0.8.1",
"v0.8.0",
"v0.3.0",
"v0.2.0",
"v0.1.0-alpha.1"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-43996.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-08T02:47:44.236947902Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2022/bsi-2022-0003.json",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/43xxx/CVE-2022-43996.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-43996"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"cna_assigner": "mitre",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/43xxx/CVE-2022-43996.json"
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2022-43996",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 98234,
"published_at": "2022-12-13T00:00:00+00:00"
}