CVE-2026-94402 PUBLISHED

IBM vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) via unsanitized title truncation

Assigner: ibm
Reserved: 21.09.2026 Published: 20.10.2026 Updated: 20.10.2026

IBM Carbon Charts 0.4.0 through 1.27.19 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. The MeterChart component's Title.truncateTitle() function re-inserts a substring of user-supplied label text into the DOM via an unsanitized innerHTML write when the title exceeds the available container width. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser session.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.1

Product Status

Vendor IBM
Product @carbon/charts
Versions
  • affected from 0.4.0 to 1.27.19 (incl.)
Vendor IBM
Product @carbon/charts-react
Versions
  • affected from 0.4.0 to 1.27.19 (incl.)
Vendor IBM
Product @carbon/charts-angular
Versions
  • affected from 0.4.0 to 1.27.19 (incl.)
Vendor IBM
Product @carbon/charts-vue
Versions
  • affected from 0.4.0 to 1.27.19 (incl.)
Vendor IBM
Product @carbon/charts-svelte
Versions
  • affected from 0.4.0 to 1.27.19 (incl.)

Workarounds

If an immediate upgrade to v1.27.20 is not possible, consuming applications should sanitize all user-influenced strings before passing them as data[0].group (or any label field) to a MeterChart. A DOMPurify call with ALLOWED_TAGS: [] applied to the value before it reaches the chart data will neutralize the payload. This is a temporary workaround only — upgrading to v1.27.20 remains the recommended remediation.

Solutions

Please update the library to the latest version available on npm:  https://www.npmjs.com/package/@carbon/charts

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE