CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-88753

Low risk· EPSS 4%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

A Regular-Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the Markdown2 extract_metadata() function (lib/markdown2.py) of trentm markdown2 through v2.5.5 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted Markdown document.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause an application that processes untrusted Markdown documents to hang or slow down significantly.

Recommendation

Update the markdown2 library to a version later than 2.5.5 or restrict processing of untrusted Markdown documents.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A Regular-Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the Markdown2. extract_metadata() function (lib/markdown2.py) of trentm markdown2 through v2.5.5 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted Markdown document.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS