CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-59928

7.5 HIGH Published 2026-07-08 Modified 2026-10-25 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-08
Last modified
2026-10-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333, CWE-407

Description

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, a Markdown document containing many repeated or distinct reference-link definitions causes quadratic work in src/mistune/block_parser.py and the ref_links environment dictionary handling, allowing denial of service through CPU exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.0.

Affected configurations

• mistune project mistune (< 3.3.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness

References