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CVE-2026-68750

🗓️ 06 Aug 2026 14:50:20Reported by EEFType 
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CVE-2026-68750: html_sanitize_ex traversal causes CPU exhaustion via quadratic sibling list flattening.

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rrrenehtmlsanitizeexRange0.3.1–1.5.3
[
  {
    "collectionURL": "https://repo.hex.pm",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:rrrene:html_sanitize_ex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "modules": [
      "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx.Traverser'",
      "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx'"
    ],
    "packageName": "html_sanitize_ex",
    "packageURL": "pkg:hex/html_sanitize_ex",
    "product": "html_sanitize_ex",
    "programFiles": [
      "lib/html_sanitize_ex/traverser.ex",
      "lib/html_sanitize_ex.ex"
    ],
    "programRoutines": [
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx.Traverser':traverse/2"
      },
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx':basic_html/1"
      },
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx':html5/1"
      },
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx':markdown_html/1"
      },
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx':strip_tags/1"
      }
    ],
    "repo": "https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex",
    "vendor": "rrrene",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "1.4.5",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0.3.1",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "lessThan": "1.5.3",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "1.5.0-rc.0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "collectionURL": "https://github.com",
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:rrrene:html_sanitize_ex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "modules": [
      "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx.Traverser'",
      "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx'"
    ],
    "packageName": "rrrene/html_sanitize_ex",
    "packageURL": "pkg:github/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex",
    "product": "html_sanitize_ex",
    "programFiles": [
      "lib/html_sanitize_ex/traverser.ex",
      "lib/html_sanitize_ex.ex"
    ],
    "programRoutines": [
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx.Traverser':traverse/2"
      },
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx':basic_html/1"
      },
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx':html5/1"
      },
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx':markdown_html/1"
      },
      {
        "name": "'Elixir.HtmlSanitizeEx':strip_tags/1"
      }
    ],
    "repo": "https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex",
    "vendor": "rrrene",
    "versions": [
      {
        "changes": [
          {
            "at": "9f5ccedbed230930813f992a1e6906fcf485981e",
            "status": "unaffected"
          },
          {
            "at": "507a6fb95dd4c466cac8a8355d8989043e9fbcc1",
            "status": "unaffected"
          }
        ],
        "lessThan": "*",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "69ea11d61525c470b39b6860d024770d5573ff1f",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  }
]
ParameterPositionPathDescriptionCWE
bodyrequest body/commentsThe application processes user-supplied rich text via the 'body' parameter. An attacker can provide a large number of sibling elements (e.g., 20,000 'a' tags) to trigger a quadratic complexity traversal in the html_sanitize_ex library, leading to CPU and memory exhaustion (DoS).CWE-407

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24 Oct 2026 16:10Current
5.9Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.9
CVSS 3.17.5
CVSS 48.2
EPSS0.00802
SSVC
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