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CVE-2026-27142 Medium · CVSS 5.3 False Positive

html/template: URLs in Meta Content Attribute Not Escaped

This CVE does not affect KrakenD

KrakenD is an API gateway and does not use Go’s html/template package to generate HTML responses. The vulnerable code path in the html/template package is never invoked during normal KrakenD operation.

Addressed through routine dependency maintenance in CE 2.13.2 and EE 2.13.0.

Component

Go standard library (html/template)

Disclosed

Mar 9, 2026

CVSS Score

5.3

Description

Go’s html/template package fails to properly escape URLs used in content attribute values within <meta> HTML tags when those values are produced by template actions. An attacker controlling the input to such a template can inject arbitrary URLs or JavaScript pseudo-protocol handlers into the rendered HTML.

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