CVE-2026-86433

commonmark 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via Attributes

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Sep 7, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Reserved
Sep 7, 2026

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Description

commonmark versions from 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the Attributes extension where AttributesListener::findTargetAndDirection() performs quadratic-time sibling list scanning. Unauthenticated attackers can submit approximately 32 KB of repeated attribute blocks to cause parsing to take over 5 seconds, exhausting server resources.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Affected Products

ProductVersions
commonmarkthephpleague
  • 1.5.0 to before 2.8.4Affected
  • 2.8.4Not affected

References

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