Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.2 are vulnerable to DoS through deeply nested tokens. HTML rendering creates deeply nested emphasis tokens from consecutive asterisk characters, and recursive rendering in HTMLRenderer.render_token() can exceed Python's recursion limit and raise RecursionError, allowing crafted Markdown to crash a parsing process. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.3
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| Description | Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.2 are vulnerable to DoS through deeply nested tokens. HTML rendering creates deeply nested emphasis tokens from consecutive asterisk characters, and recursive rendering in HTMLRenderer.render_token() can exceed Python's recursion limit and raise RecursionError, allowing crafted Markdown to crash a parsing process. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.3 | |
| Title | Mistune has Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-08-24T20:17:07.057Z
Reserved: 2026-08-18T21:17:32.201Z
Link: CVE-2026-76098
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-24T20:17:19.330
Modified: 2026-08-24T20:17:19.330
Link: CVE-2026-76098
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