CVE-2026-53531

ratex-parser has unbounded parser recursion that leads to stack overflow (process abort)

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Aug 21, 2026
Updated
Aug 25, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

RaTeX is a KaTeX-compatible math rendering engine written in Rust. Prior to version 0.1.11, RaTeX’s recursive-descent parser recurses one (or more) native stack frame per nesting level at `{`, `\left`, `\sqrt{`, `^{`, etc, with no maximum depth limit. A short, ~10 KB input of nested groups overflows the 8 MB main-thread stack and aborts the process. With `panic = "abort"` (`Cargo.toml:48`), and because a Rust stack overflow is always a fatal `SIGABRT` regardless of panic strategy this is an unrecoverable, whole-process denial of service reachable from a single untrusted LaTeX string. Version 0.1.11 fixes the issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

Affected Products

ProductVersions
RaTeXerweixin
  • < 0.1.11Affected

References

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