Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting mistune package, versions [,3.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-MISTUNE-17895070
  • published8 Jul 2026
  • disclosed8 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-59927  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mistune to version 3.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion through the include process. An attacker can cause the application to crash by creating two markdown files that recursively include each other, leading to unbounded recursion and a RecursionError.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1