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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.7 High

CVE-2026-86435

commonmark 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via Footnote

Description

commonmark versions from 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the Footnote extension that fails to deduplicate footnote definitions. Attackers can craft documents with duplicate footnote definitions and references to create quadratic output expansion, consuming excessive memory and CPU to exhaust server resources.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

thephpleague commonmark

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.5.0 to < 2.8.4affected
  • 2.8.4unaffected
pkg:composer/league/commonmark

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