CVE-2026-58486CWE-400CWE-409

HedgeDoc: Denial-of-service via YAML alias expansion in note frontmatter

High · published July 13, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
32.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

HedgeDoc is an open source, real-time, collaborative, markdown notes application. Prior to version 1.11.0, HedgeDoc was vulnerable to a YAML alias bomb due to unsafe processing of the note frontmatter. HedgeDoc parsed frontmatter with js-yaml.load (js-yaml v3) via @hedgedoc/meta-marked, which resolved YAML anchor aliases. A compact malicious payload could therefore expand into a huge object structure, consuming excessive CPU. This expansion ran on every request to the publish view (/s/<shortid>) and, when placed under the opengraph key, the editor view (/<noteId>). A ten-level alias bomb could block the single Node.js event loop for roughly 235 seconds per request, causing concurrent requests to hang or drop and rendering the instance unavailable (DoS). Because the note was stored in the database, the impact survived process restarts until the note was removed. toobusy-js did not reliably mitigate the worst cases, as the event loop was saturated before the middleware could respond. This issue was fixed in version 1.11.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
EPSS
0.00397 · 32.8th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-409 · Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Published
2026-07-13T22:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 JUL 22:12Z
    HedgeDoc: Denial-of-service via YAML alias expansion in note frontmatter
    cvelistv5