CVE-2026-86435

commonmark 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via Footnote

Published Sep 7, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 8.7 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
commonmark versions from 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the Footnote extension that fails to deduplicate footnote definitions. Attackers can craft documents with duplicate footnote definitions and references to create quadratic output expansion, consuming excessive memory and CPU to exhaust server resources.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description commonmark versions from 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the Footnote extension that fails to deduplicate footnote definitions. Attackers can craft documents with duplicate footnote definitions and references to create quadratic output expansion, consuming excessive memory and CPU to exhaust server resources.
Title commonmark 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via Footnote
First Time appeared Thephpleague
Thephpleague commonmark
Weaknesses CWE-407
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:thephpleague:commonmark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Thephpleague
Thephpleague commonmark
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
VulnCheck
Published
Updated
Oct 8, 2026, 3:25 PM
Reserved
Sep 7, 2026, 12:34 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Sep 7, 2026, 1:20 PM
Modified
Oct 8, 2026, 4:17 PM