CVE-2026-59928

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An attacker who can supply Markdown for parsing could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted document containing numerous repeated or distinct reference-link definitions. This triggers excessive CPU consumption during parsing, which may render affected applications unresponsive and result in a denial of service. Red Hat uses PR:L because delivering the crafted Markdown document document to Mistune will require authenticated access in affected products, platform login/RBAC prevents unauthenticated remote submission in default deployments. The upstream PR:N score assumes any Internet-facing app parsing untrusted Markdown without authentication.", "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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