THREATOPS
THREAT OPSThreat News › [GHSA] GHSA-jfm3-95jq-q3rf (high) — league/commonmark: Denial of service via duplicate footnote definitions

[GHSA] GHSA-jfm3-95jq-q3rf (high) — league/commonmark: Denial of service via duplicate footnote definitions

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-08-06

GHSA-jfm3-95jq-q3rf Severity: high CVE: None

league/commonmark: Denial of service via duplicate footnote definitions

### Impact

The Footnote extension records one backref per footnote *reference* and then appends the **entire** backref list for **every** footnote *definition* block in the document, without ever de-duplicating or removing repeated definitions of the same label (`GatherFootnotes

Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jfm3-95jq-q3rf