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[GHSA] GHSA-6m44-fpc8-c3rq (high) — Mistune: Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown
GHSA-6m44-fpc8-c3rq Severity: high CVE: CVE-2026-76098
Mistune: Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown
## Summary Mistune v3.3.2 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack via uncontrolled recursion in the HTML rendering of deeply-nested emphasis tokens. By submitting Markdown containing approximately 1,000 consecutive asterisk characters, an attacke
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-76098cve
Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6m44-fpc8-c3rq