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CVE-2026-59887

linkify-it: Quadratic-complexity DoS via the `mailto:` validator scan-loop on attacker text PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

linkify-it is a links recognition library with full Unicode support. Prior to 5.0.2, the mailto: schema validator used by .test() and .match() can be invoked at every mailto: occurrence and scan the remaining input through src_email_name in lib/re.mjs, causing O(n^2) CPU consumption on crafted user text. This issue is fixed in version 5.0.2.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
markdown-it / linkify-itaffected < 5.0.2

CWE

CWE-407

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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