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markdown-it CVE debriefs

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HIGH markdown-it CVE published 2026-07-14

CVE-2026-48801

AI-assisted PatchSiren debrief based on the supplied source corpus. The CVE record was published on 2026-07-14T21:17:01.247Z and has not been modified since then. The NVD entry is currently Analyzed. This vulnerability affects developers and administrators using the linkify-it library, especially those rendering untrusted Markdown with linkify:true on request hot paths. They should review and apply the pa [truncated]

HIGH markdown-it CVE published 2026-07-08

CVE-2026-59887

CVE-2026-59887 is a denial of service vulnerability in the linkify-it library. The vulnerability is caused by the mailto: schema validator used by .test() and .match() which can be invoked at every mailto: occurrence and scan the remaining input, leading to O(n^2) CPU consumption on crafted user text. This issue is fixed in version 5.0.2. The vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.5 and can be exploited [truncated]

MEDIUM markdown-it CVE published 2026-06-17

CVE-2026-48988

CVE-2026-48988 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in markdown-it, a Markdown parser. When typographer: true is enabled, the smartquotes rule can cause excessive CPU consumption due to quadratic (O(n^2)) processing. This can lead to service degradation or disruption when parsing quote-heavy, user-supplied markdown. Although typographer is disabled by default, many production apps enable it for smart typo [truncated]