ubuntu-cve-2026-49851
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-06-24 18:17
Modified
2026-06-30 16:22
Summary
Details

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, Mistune is vulnerable to a CPU exhaustion DoS due to superlinear (approximately O(n²)) behavior in parse_link_text. When parsing Markdown containing many consecutive [ characters, parse_link_text repeatedly scans the input using a regex search inside a loop. Each iteration re-scans a large portion of the remaining string, resulting in quadratic-time behavior. An attacker-controlled Markdown input can therefore trigger excessive CPU usage with a very small payload. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.0.

Severity
8.7 (High)
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
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-49851",
  "modified": "2026-06-30T16:22:53Z",
  "published": "2026-06-24T18:17:00Z",
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
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    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
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    "CVE-2026-49851"
  ]
}



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