commonmark 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via Attributes
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-407.
Summary
commonmark versions from 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the Attributes extension where AttributesListener::findTargetAndDirection() performs quadratic-time sibling list scanning. Unauthenticated attackers can submit approximately 32 KB of repeated attribute blocks to cause parsing to take over 5 seconds, exhausting server resources.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thephpleague | commonmark | 1.5.0 to before 2.8.4 | 2.8.4 | Patch available | CNA |
- commonmark Vendorthephpleague Affected 1.5.0 to before 2.8.4 Fixed in 2.8.4 Patch available CNA
CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:thephpleague:commonmark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | thephpleague |
- cpe:2.3:a:thephpleague:commonmark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·thephpleague
Remediation
- Fix · CNA commonmark (thephpleague) Fixed in 2.8.4
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
thephpleague commonmark 2.8.4
4 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 3 MEDIUM, 1 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-59143 commonmark 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via FootnotePriority MEDIUM 44
- TI-2026-59142 commonmark 2.0.0 through 2.8.3 Denial of Service via Slug CollisionPriority MEDIUM 44
- TI-2026-59140 commonmark 2.0.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via XMLPriority LOW 37
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-86433
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f9pm-gcpp-fwjp
References
More thephpleague vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-69535 league/commonmark Quadratic DoS via TableStartParser CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-50093 league/commonmark: AttributesExtension href/src unsafe-link filter bypass via embedded control bytes CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2026-69534 Cross-site scripting in League CommonMark bypasses DisallowedRawHtml CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2026-65445 Flysystem: WhitespacePathNormalizer's control-character (CorruptedPathDetected) check is… CVSS 3.1LOW 3.5
- TI-2021-12376 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in league/flysystem CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-59143 commonmark 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via Footnote CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-86433 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-86433 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f9pm-gcpp-fwjp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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