CVE-2026-86429CWE-407

CVE-2026-86429

High · published September 7, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The league/commonmark (thephpleague/commonmark) library in versions >= 1.5.0 and < 2.9.1 contains quadratic parsing complexity in its SmartPunctExtension and AttributesExtension. When either extension is explicitly registered on the Environment (they are not enabled by default and are excluded from the standard CommonMark and GitHub-Flavored Markdown converters), an unauthenticated attacker can submit small, specially crafted Markdown documents — such as text alternating with unpaired quotes, contiguous runs of block-level attribute blocks, or repeated class attributes — to trigger disproportionate CPU consumption and cause a denial of service. Fixed in 2.9.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · 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
EPSS
0.00515 · 43.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-407 · Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Published
2026-09-07T17:20Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
thephpleague/commonmark≥ 1.5.0, < 2.9.12.9.1
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 SEP 03:20Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 07 SEP 12:53Z
    commonmark before 2.9.1 Denial of Service via SmartPunct and Attributes
    cvelistv5