Bug 2565894 (CVE-2026-121437)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-121437 mistune: mistune: Denial of Service via quadratic-time emphasis delimiter processing | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | --- | |
| Doc Text: |
A flaw was found in mistune. A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by submitting specially crafted Markdown documents containing repeating emphasis delimiter patterns. Processing these patterns triggers an inefficient index-fixup loop that consumes excessive CPU resources and stalls application workers.
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 2568135, 2568136, 2568137 | ||
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Description
OSIDB Bzimport
2026-11-03 15:40:35 UTC
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