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CVE-2026-59928

Mistune block_parser: quadratic-time parsing on long lists of repeated reference-link definitions PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, a Markdown document containing many repeated or distinct reference-link definitions causes quadratic work in src/mistune/block_parser.py and the ref_links environment dictionary handling, allowing denial of service through CPU exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
lepture / mistuneaffected < 3.3.0

CWE

CWE-407, CWE-1333

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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