Security Advisory

CVE-2026-40470

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-04-23 14:53:47
Last updated 2026-04-23 16:22:27
Assigner redhat-cnalr
State PUBLISHED

Description

A critical XSS vulnerability affected hackage-server and hackage.haskell.org. HTML and JavaScript files provided in source packages or via the documentation upload facility were served as-is on the main hackage.haskell.org domain. As a consequence, when a user with latent HTTP credentials browses to the package pages or documentation uploaded by a malicious package maintainer, their session can be hijacked to upload packages or documentation, amend maintainers or other package metadata, or perform any other action the user is authorised to do.