CVE-2026-96677 PUBLISHED

Apache Juneau: Cross-site scripting via unescaped request variables in HTML-doc chrome

Assigner: apache
Reserved: 23.09.2026 Published: 05.11.2026 Updated: 05.11.2026

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Apache Juneau.

HTML document serialization does not HTML-encode variable substitutions in the page chrome (header, nav, aside, footer and similar fields). Applications whose chrome includes request-derived variables, such as request headers, form data or path values, reflect those values unencoded, allowing cross-site scripting. The default chrome does not use request variables, so only applications that add them are affected.

This issue affects Apache Juneau: through 9.2.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.2.1, which fixes the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 10

Product Status

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Juneau
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 9.2.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • 姬珏 (Diana Wang) finder

References

Problem Types

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