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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-73254 EUVD-2026-63496

Mongoose: Stored XSS via unescaped filenames in directory listing

Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, an attacker who can create a file with an HTML payload in its name can trigger stored cross-site scripting when a user browses a directory served with MG_ENABLE_DIRLIST. The printdirentry() path called by listdir() in src/http.c URL-encodes the href but inserts the raw filesystem filename into the HTML link text. The browser executes the injected markup in the Mongoose origin, which can expose session data or permit actions as the victim. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cesanta mongoose < 7.22 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 mongoose 7.22+ds-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 mongoose No fix yet —

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