High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 22, 2026· Updated Oct 22, 2026
CVE-2026-115348
CVE-2026-115348
Description
Mistune from 3.0.0 before 3.3.0 contains an algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the inline link parser's parse_link_text function that allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust CPU with unbalanced brackets. Attackers can submit Markdown containing many unbalanced '[' or '![' characters, forcing repeated unbounded forward scans and tying up worker processes for minutes.
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