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Upgrade github.com/yuin/goldmark to address CVW-2026-5160 #328
Description
The current release (v0.6.0) includes a transitive dependency on:
github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.4.13
Security scanners are reporting:
CVE-2026-5160
CWE-79 (Cross Site Scription)
Versions of the package github.com/yuin/goldmark/renderer/html before 1.7.17 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper ordering of URL validation and normalization. The renderer validates link destinations using a prefix-based check (IsDangerousURL) before resolving HTML entities. This allows an attacker to bypass protocol filtering by encoding dangerous schemes using HTML5 named character references. For example, a payload such as javascript:alert(1) is not recognized as dangerous during validation, leading to arbitrary script execution in the context of applications that render the URL.
Affected versions:
github.com/yuin/goldmark < v1.7.17
Please refer to advisories
GHSA-c97m-vxhj-p7j6
The progject's go.mod currently resolves goldmark v1.4.13.
Would the maintainers be willing to upgrade the dependency to non-vulnerable version (v1.7.17 or later)?
We've confiremd the issue remains in the latest go.uber.org/mock release (V0.6.0).
Thank you
Santy
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