CVE-2026-111766: falha de baixa gravidade em markdown-it
markdown-it: Quadratic-time denial of service in inline HTML parsing with html enabled
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8Vexday Risk Score
Sem sinal de exploração. Nenhum artefato público de exploração conhecido até agora.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.7epss 0.4%
markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Prior to 14.3.3 and 15.0.3, when the html option or commonmark preset is enabled and the constructs occur inside a paragraph, attacker-controlled Markdown containing repeated unterminated inline HTML comments, processing instructions, declarations, or CDATA sections reaches src/rules_inline/html_inline.ts. Its HTML_TAG_RE match searches the remaining suffix for the appropriate terminator; when no terminator is present, parsing advances to the next opener and repeats the match over overlapping input, causing quadratic processing and denial of service through event-loop blocking or an unresponsive browser main thread. HTML blocks and the default HTML-disabled configuration are not affected by these payloads. This issue is fixed in versions 14.3.3 and 15.0.3.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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Referências
https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/commit/928bc8c11ded60181c0e7fc5aa954eec582e8e79https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/commit/d99f48839d37af6fd8a2617516c43dab90755503https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/releases/tag/14.3.3https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/releases/tag/15.0.3https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/security/advisories/GHSA-vfgh-jcmw-g37q