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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-73259 EUVD-2026-63498

Mongoose: Reflected XSS via decoded URI in directory listing render

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

Description

Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, a remote attacker can send a crafted percent-encoded request path to a deployment using MG_ENABLE_DIRLIST and persuade a user to visit it. The mg_http_serve_dir() and listdir() path in src/http.c places the decoded request URI into the title and h1 elements without HTML entity encoding. The resulting reflected cross-site scripting executes in the Mongoose origin and can expose session data or perform 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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