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CVE-2026-121437

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-11-03 Modified: 2026-11-03

Description

Mistune from 3.3.0 before 3.3.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to exhaust CPU through quadratic-time emphasis delimiter processing. Attackers can submit small markdown documents with repeated patterns like "*a_b" to trigger an O(n²) index-fixup loop, stalling workers for seconds.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-407

References