CVE-2026-76098 (GCVE-0-2026-76098)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-24 20:05 – Updated: 2026-08-24 20:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Mistune has Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown
Summary
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.render_token() can exceed Python's recursion limit and raise RecursionError, allowing crafted Markdown to crash a parsing process. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.3
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-24 20:16 UTC
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/lepture/mistune/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/lepture/mistune/commit/0938fb7 | x_refsource_MISC |
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