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.
Published: 2026-11-03
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Mistune 3.3.0 before 3.3.4 Quadratic-Time DoS via _process_emphasis_delimiters
First Time appeared Mistune Project
Mistune Project mistune
Weaknesses CWE-407
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mistune_project:mistune:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mistune Project
Mistune Project mistune
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Mistune Project Mistune
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-03T16:59:17.405Z

Reserved: 2026-11-03T12:32:14.752Z

Link: CVE-2026-121437

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-11-03T16:58:59.910Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-11-03T15:17:35.147

Modified: 2026-11-03T17:18:09.653

Link: CVE-2026-121437

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-03T16:15:13Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-407

    Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity