Upstream information

CVE-2026-88753 at MITRE

Description

A Regular-Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the Markdown2. extract_metadata() function (lib/markdown2.py) of trentm markdown2 through v2.5.5 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted Markdown document.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1285724 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Oct 16 11:58:50 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 16 11:58:50 2026