Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-48988

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Versions 14.1.1 and below contain a denial-of-service vulnerability when typographer: true is enabled, due to quadratic On^2...

CVE-2026-48988

markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Versions 14.1.1 and below contain a denial-of-service vulnerability when typographer: true is enabled, due to quadratic On^2 processing in the smartquotes rule. The issue stems from repeatedly modifying strings with replaceAt, which performs On slicing and...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-48988

markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Versions 14.1.1 and below contain a denial-of-service vulnerability when typographer: true is enabled, due to quadratic On^2 processing in the smartquotes rule. The issue stems from repeatedly modifying strings with replaceAt, which performs On slicing and...

CVE-2026-48988

markdown-it is affected by a Denial-of-Service vulnerability (CVE-2026-48988) when typographer: true is enabled. Versions 14.1.1 and earlier process smartquotes with a quadratic time complexity due to repeated uses of replaceAt(), causing high CPU usage on quote-heavy inputs. The issue can degrad...

CVE-2026-48988

markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Versions 14.1.1 and below contain a denial-of-service vulnerability when typographer: true is enabled, due to quadratic On^2 processing in the smartquotes rule. The issue stems from repeatedly modifying strings with replaceAt, which performs On slicing and...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

markdown-it is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. The vulnerability is due to quadratic-time processing in the smartquotes rule when typographer: true is enabled, which allows an attacker to supply specially crafted markdown containing consecutive quotation marks and consume excessive CPU...

GHSA-6V5V-WF23-FMFQ markdown-it: Quadratic complexity DoS in smartquotes rule via replaceAt string operations

Summary A quadratic time complexity vulnerability exists in markdown-it's smartquotes rule enabled via the typographer: true option. An attacker can craft a markdown input consisting of consecutive quotation marks that causes the parser to consume excessive CPU time, leading to denial of service...

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Overview org.webjars.npm:markdown-it is a modern pluggable markdown parser. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity through the replaceAt function in the smartquotes rule when processing markdown input with a large number of consecutive quotation mar...

markdown-it: Quadratic complexity DoS in smartquotes rule via replaceAt string operations

Summary A quadratic time complexity vulnerability exists in markdown-it's smartquotes rule enabled via the typographer: true option. An attacker can craft a markdown input consisting of consecutive quotation marks that causes the parser to consume excessive CPU time, leading to denial of service...

PT-2026-49555

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions markdown-it affected versions not specified Description A quadratic time complexity issue exists in the smartquotes rule when the typographer: true option is enabled. An attacker can provide markdown input containing a large number of...