Vega Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via event filter when not using CSP mode expressionInterpeter

Description

In vega 5.30.0 and lower, vega-functions 5.15.0 and lower , it was possible to call JavaScript functions from the Vega expression language that were not meant to be supported.

Recommendation

Update the vega-functions package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 5.16.0
• Patched version(s): 5.16.0

References

• GHSA-rcw3-wmx7-cphr
• CVE-2025-26619
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Vega vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via RegExp.prototype[@@replace] - CVE-2025-27793
• @hono/node-server has Denial of Service risk when receiving Host header that cannot be parsed - CVE-2024-32652
• jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext - CVE-2024-28176
• url-parse incorrectly parses hostname / protocol due to unstripped leading control characters. - CVE-2022-0691

Tags:

npm

vega-functions