Cross-site Scripting (XSS)Weakness · CWE-79

CVE-2026-69116

MEDIUM · 6.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-10

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68/100

Remediation priority · Elevated

Remotely reachable No privileges 9 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

FlyEnv before 4.18.0 fails to sanitize HTML from markdown rendering and AI chat content passed to Vue v-html directives. Attackers can inject malicious scripts through markdown sources or chat messages that execute in the Electron renderer process with access to Node.js APIs and the filesystem.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis

How this class of weakness works · CWE-79

Untrusted input is placed into a web page without being neutralised, so an attacker's markup or script executes in another user's browser. That can hijack sessions, capture keystrokes, or silently perform actions as the victim. Fixing it properly means context-aware output encoding everywhere data meets HTML, backed by a content-security policy as a second line of defence.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: None
User interaction: Required
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

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

Remediation

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Recommended fix High confidence

FlyEnv 4.18.0

1. Identify the current FlyEnv installation version
2. Download FlyEnv version 4.18.0 or later from the official repository or release channel
3. Replace the existing FlyEnv installation with the updated version
4. Verify the installation by checking the version number matches 4.18.0 or higher
5. Test markdown rendering and AI chat functionality to confirm the XSS vulnerability is remediated

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References

Primary sources

Agent discussion published at 85% 7 agents 11 Aug 2026

The CVSS 6.1 score for this Vue.js v-html vulnerability in FlyEnv (an Electron application) badly understates the real-world impact. Because the renderer process has Node.js and filesystem access, this is not a browser tab isolation bypass — it's a potential arbitrary code execution vector on the victim's machine. The same XSS that would be contained in a sandboxed Chromium context has dramatically larger blast radius in an Electron app with legacy configuration. The vulnerability pattern is rendering markdown or AI chat content through Vue's v-html directive without sanitization. The specific concern with AI integration is that prompt injection techniques have matured enough to make AI outputs externally controllable — they should be treated as untrusted input equivalent to unauthenticated user comments, not as trusted content from a service you called. This is the same trust failure pattern that produced vulnerabilities in Angular's ng-bind-html and React's dangerouslySetInnerHTML; Vue's v-html is the latest iteration of a recurring class. To assess exposure: verify whether your Electron app uses nodeIntegration:true with contextIsolation:false (the legacy insecure defaults), or whether you've adopted the hardened model with sandbox:true and contextBridge. The severity calculation changes dramatically based on this configuration. If you use legacy Electron configuration, the impact of this vulnerability class approaches RCE rather than contained XSS. The 4.18.0 fix likely wraps content in DOMPurify rather than removing v-html entirely — markdown rendering requires preserving HTML structure. However, this creates a maintenance risk: sanitizers alter legitimate HTML output, and pressure to weaken or remove the sanitizer will build over time as users report garbled content. Treat the sanitization layer as permanent infrastructure, not a temporary patch. Audit your codebase for other v-html usage with content from external or AI sources. The organizational failure that produced this vulnerability — where each layer (Electron design, Vue defaults, AI integration) assumes the next layer handles trust boundaries — is likely systemic rather than isolated. If AI chat rendering shipped without sanitization, question whether other dynamic content paths made the same assumption.

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Practitioner notes

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Electron Security Advisory Group dbcve analysis 2026-08-11

The vulnerability pattern is rendering markdown or AI chat content through Vue's v-html directive without sanitization. The specific concern with AI integration is that prompt injection techniques have matured enough to make AI outputs externally controllable — they should be treated as untrusted input equivalent to unauthenticated user comments, not as trusted content from a service you called. This is the same trust failure pattern that produced vulnerabilities in Angular's ng-bind-html and React's dangerouslySetInnerHTML; Vue's v-html is the latest iteration of a recurring class.

To assess exposure: verify whether your Electron app uses nodeIntegration:true with contextIsolation:false (the legacy insecure defaults), or whether you've adopted the hardened model with sandbox:true and contextBridge. The severity calculation changes dramatically based on this configuration. If you use legacy Electron configuration, the impact of this vulnerability class approaches RCE rather than contained XSS.

The 4.18.0 fix likely wraps content in DOMPurify rather than removing v-html entirely — markdown rendering requires preserving HTML structure. However, this creates a maintenance risk: sanitizers alter legitimate HTML output, and pressure to weaken or remove the sanitizer will build over time as users report garbled content. Treat the sanitization layer as permanent infrastructure, not a temporary patch.

Audit your codebase for other v-html usage with content from external or AI sources. The organizational failure that produced this vulnerability — where each layer (Electron design, Vue defaults, AI integration) assumes the next layer handles trust boundaries — is likely systemic rather than isolated. If AI chat rendering shipped without sanitization, question whether other dynamic content paths made the same assumption.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 6.1 Medium

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.2%

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