CVE-2026-111759
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Denial of Service in markdown-it via Quadratic Processing Time
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-111759, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-19
Last updated on: 2026-10-19
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
Description
markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Prior to 14.3.2 and 15.0.2, when typographer: true is enabled, specially crafted Markdown can cause quadratic processing time in the smartquotes rule, potentially leading to denial of service in applications processing untrusted input. Many opening double quotes followed by unmatched closing single quotes cause repeated scans of the entire opener stack. The same issue occurs with the quote types reversed. The default configuration (typographer: false) is not affected, but this option is enabled with high probability. This issue is fixed in versions 14.3.2 and 15.0.2.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| markdown-it | markdown-it | >= 15.0.0, < 15.0.2 |
| markdown-it | markdown-it | < 14.3.2 |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-400 | The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource. |
| CWE-407 | An algorithm in a product has an inefficient worst-case computational complexity that may be detrimental to system performance and can be triggered by an attacker, typically using crafted manipulations that ensure that the worst case is being reached. |
