KaTeX is a fast, easy-to-use JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. From 0.11.0 until 0.18.2, KaTeX uses ordinary JavaScript property access for the renderer options object, the trust setting, default and processor setting metadata, and namespace lookup and group restoration, allowing inherited properties to be treated as explicitly supplied values. When Object.prototype is already polluted or an attacker controls the options object's prototype, attacker-controlled mathematical expressions can use an inherited trust value to enable trusted rendering and produce links capable of user-interaction cross-site scripting or loading attacker-selected external resources in a consuming application that inserts unsanitized KaTeX output into a page. KaTeX does not itself create the prototype pollution, and rendering an expression alone does not execute script. This issue is fixed in version 0.18.2.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - KaTeX is a fast, easy-to-use JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. From 0.11.0 until
    0.18.2, KaTeX uses ordinary JavaScript property access for the renderer options object, the trust setting,
    default and processor setting metadata, and namespace lookup and group restoration, allowing inherited
    properties to be treated as explicitly supplied values. When Object.prototype is already polluted or an
    attacker controls the options object's prototype, attacker-controlled mathematical expressions can use an
    inherited trust value to enable trusted rendering and produce links capable of user-interaction cross-site
    scripting or loading attacker-selected external resources in a consuming application that inserts
    unsanitized KaTeX output into a page. KaTeX does not itself create the prototype pollution, and rendering
    an expression alone does not execute script. This issue is fixed in version 0.18.2. (CVE-2026-103923)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - KaTeX is a fast, easy-to-use JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. From 0.11.0 until     0.18.2, KaTeX uses ordinary JavaScript property access for the renderer options object, the trust setting,     default and processor setting metadata, and namespace lookup and group restoration, allowing inherited     properties to be treated as explicitly supplied values. When Object.prototype is already polluted or an     attacker controls the options object's prototype, attacker-controlled mathematical expressions can use an     inherited trust value to enable trusted rendering and produce links capable of user-interaction cross-site     scripting or loading attacker-selected external resources in a consuming application that inserts     unsanitized KaTeX output into a page. KaTeX does not itself create the prototype pollution, and rendering     an expression alone does not execute script. This issue is fixed in version 0.18.2. (CVE-2026-103923)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
473518	Chainguard: tensorflow-gpu-jupyter: security update to 2.21.0-r12	Tenable Cloud Security	Chainguard Local Security Checks	Local	low
473518	Chainguard: tensorflow-gpu-jupyter: security update to 2.21.0-r12	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Chainguard Local Security Checks	Local	low
472983	SCA: security update for katex (GHSA-238p-pmpm-9mq7)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	low
472983	SCA: security update for katex (GHSA-238p-pmpm-9mq7)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	low
362514	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-103923	Nessus	Misc.	Local	low

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