python-markdown: denial of service via malformed HTML-like sequences

A flaw was found in Python-Markdown. Parsing crafted markdown content containing malformed HTML-like sequences causes html.parser.HTMLParser to raise an unhandled AssertionError. This unhandled exception allows an attacker to cause an application crash and potentially disclose sensitive informati...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Python-Markdown is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of malformed HTML-like sequences during Markdown parsing, where html.parser.HTMLParser may raise an unhandled AssertionError, allowing attacker-supplied Markdown input to crash the application...