Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting mistune package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-MISTUNE-19257708
  • published26 Aug 2026
  • disclosed24 Aug 2026

Introduced: 24 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-76098  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:11 mistune.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mistune package and not the mistune package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.2 are vulnerable to DoS through deeply nested tokens. HTML rendering creates deeply nested emphasis tokens from consecutive asterisk characters, and recursive rendering in HTMLRenderer.render_token() can exceed Python's recursion limit and raise RecursionError, allowing crafted Markdown to crash a parsing process. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.3

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1