Security Advisory

CVE-2026-86432

CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

commonmark versions from 2.0.0 before 2.8.4 contain a denial of service vulnerability in XmlRenderer that emits depth-proportional indentation for every XML tag. Attackers can provide deeply nested Markdown or AST structures to cause quadratic memory consumption and output amplification, exhausting server resources.
Published Date 2026-09-07T13:20:42.600
Data Feed NIST National Vulnerability Database