CVE-2026-71488
HIGHleague/commonmark: Quadratic-time denial of service when parsing crafted Markdown
Title source: cnaDescription
league/commonmark is a PHP library for parsing and rendering CommonMark Markdown. From 0.6.0 until 2.9.0, specially crafted Markdown lines can cause the parser to have quadratic time complexity when converting, because several parsing paths repeatedly rescan growing portions of a line to translate between character positions and byte positions, and the Autolink extension can also copy and validate the remaining line at every URL-like prefix, allowing an attacker who can submit Markdown for conversion to consume disproportionate CPU time with a comparatively small request. This issue is fixed in 2.9.0.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/security/advisories/GHSA-2q4p-g7hv-5rgv
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/commit/a6ef6cdc308dfa39a34239c35818e75892a0e6a8
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/commit/a70979ea0d7d3377bd7127536748454a922bf5eb
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/commit/c97b02e5e652b992033b93ba5d6182f706343fc6
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/releases/tag/2.9.0
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0035
EPSS Percentile
27.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1050
CWE-407
Status
published
Products (2)
league/commonmark
0.6.0 - 2.9.0Packagist
thephpleague/commonmark
>= 0.6.0, < 2.9.0
Published
Aug 06, 2026
Tracked Since
Aug 07, 2026