Mistune: Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown

SummaryMistune v3.3.2 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service DoS attack via uncontrolled recursion in the HTML rendering of deeply-nested emphasis tokens. By submitting Markdown containing approximately 1,000 consecutive asterisk characters, an attacker causes the Python process to crash with...

PYSEC-2026-3863 Mistune: Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown

Summary Mistune v3.3.2 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service DoS attack via uncontrolled recursion in the HTML rendering of deeply-nested emphasis tokens. By submitting Markdown containing approximately 1,000 consecutive asterisk characters, an attacker causes the Python process to crash with...

Mistune: Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown

Summary Mistune v3.3.2 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service DoS attack via uncontrolled recursion in the HTML rendering of deeply-nested emphasis tokens. By submitting Markdown containing approximately 1,000 consecutive asterisk characters, an attacker causes the Python process to crash with...

CVE-2026-76098

A flaw was found in Mistune, a Python Markdown parser. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a Denial of Service DoS by submitting specially crafted Markdown input. The excessive use of emphasis markers, such as consecutive asterisks, creates deeply nested tokens during HTML...

CVE-2026-76098 Mistune has Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.2 are vulnerable to DoS through deeply nested tokens. HTML rendering creates deeply nested emphasis tokens from consecutive asterisk characters, and recursive rendering in HTMLRenderer.rendertoken can excee...

SUSE CVE-2026-59925

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, long sequences of well-formed double-asterisk or triple-asterisk emphasis pairs around a character cause quadratic work in src/mistune/inlineparser.py because the parser scans forward for matching close markers from...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-59925

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, long sequences of well-formed double-asterisk or triple-asterisk emphasis pairs around a character cause quadratic work in src/mistune/inlineparser.py because the parser scans forward for matching close markers from...

PYSEC-2026-2213

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, long sequences of well-formed double-asterisk or triple-asterisk emphasis pairs around a character cause quadratic work in src/mistune/inlineparser.py because the parser scans forward for matching close markers from...