High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 3, 2026· Updated Nov 3, 2026
CVE-2026-121437
CVE-2026-121437
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.
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