CVE-2026-46672: @actual-app/cli `--format csv` Output Vulnerable to CSV Formula Injection via Custom `escapeCsv` Helper
@actual-app/cli ships a hand-rolled CSV serializer in packages/cli/src/output.ts (used whenever the global --format csv option is passed) whose escapeCsv helper only handles RFC 4180 delimiter/quote/newline escaping. It does not neutralize the standard CSV formula-injection prefixes (=, +, -, @, \t, \r). Any CLI command that streams an object array containing user-controlled strings — transactions list, accounts list, payees list, categories list, tags list, category-groups list, rules list, schedules list, query — will emit cells that auto-evaluate when the resulting CSV is opened in Excel, LibreOffice Calc, or Google Sheets, enabling data exfiltration (=HYPERLINK(...), =WEBSERVICE(...)) and arbitrary formula execution.
This is a distinct variant of the formula-injection surface in packages/loot-core/src/server/transactions/export/export-to-csv.ts (which uses csv-stringify and would need a separate cast option fix) — they are different files, different packages, and different serializers. Fixing one does not fix the other.
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