Advisory record · GHSA-wpmx-564x-h2mh

ewen-lbh/ffcss Late-Unicode normalization vulnerability

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0052 · 44th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 28 Dec 2023, 21:16 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
github.com/ewen-lbh/ffcssGo<0.2.00.2.0
Identifiers
GHSA-wpmx-564x-h2mh · CVE-2023-52081 · GO-2023-2426
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-74 · CWE-176
Published
28 Dec 2023
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The Go package github.com/ewen-lbh/ffcss before 0.2.0 is affected. Its lookupPreprocess() function strips dashes, underscores and dots from user-supplied input, but applying Unicode NFKD normalization after that step lets equivalent characters such as U+2024 and U+FE4D turn back into those characters. The source says the practical impact is low, since the function is only used for loose, case-insensitive theme lookup. Upgrade to version 0.2.0 or later, where normalization runs first.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.3 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0052, the 44th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:15 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:15 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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