Mistune: Potential DoS via quadratic-time parsing in parse_link_text
21Vexday Risk Score
Sin señal de explotación. Ningún artefacto público de explotación conocido hasta ahora.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.6%
probabilidad de explotación
0.6%top 52% de las CVE
explotación observada
noninguna fuente lo reporta
Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, Mistune is vulnerable to a CPU exhaustion DoS due to superlinear (approximately O(n²)) behavior in parse_link_text. When parsing Markdown containing many consecutive [ characters, parse_link_text repeatedly scans the input using a regex search inside a loop. Each iteration re-scans a large portion of the remaining string, resulting in quadratic-time behavior. An attacker-controlled Markdown input can therefore trigger excessive CPU usage with a very small payload. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.0.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Productos afectados
lepture · mistuneReferencias
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60520https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-49851https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492304https://github.com/lepture/mistune/security/advisories/GHSA-qcq2-496w-v96phttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-49851.json