Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting mistune package, versions [,3.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-MISTUNE-17895072
  • published8 Jul 2026
  • disclosed8 Jul 2026
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Introduced: 8 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-59930  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (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 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity via the toc process. An attacker can interfere with same-page navigation, CSS selectors, or JavaScript handlers by creating content with predictable id attributes that collide with automatically generated heading anchors.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1