Resource exhaustion in Lepture Mistune

CVE-2026-49851

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, Mistune is vulnerable to a CPU exhaustion DoS due to superlinear (approximately O(n²)) behavior in parse_link_text. When parsing Markdown containing many conse…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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