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CVE-2026-48801

8.7 high SSVC exploitation: poc Analyzed

linkify-it is a links recognition library with full Unicode support. Prior to 5.0.1, LinkifyIt.prototype.match, the package's primary public API, has O(N²) algorithmic complexity for inputs containing many fuzzy links or emails because the JavaScript-level scan loop re-slices input and re-runs unanchored regex searches on progressively shorter tails. Any service that synchronously renders untrusted Markdown with linkify:true on a request hot path can inherit a worker-process denial of service triggerable by a tens-of-KB request body. This issue is fixed in version 5.0.1.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 8.7 · markdown-itNVD modified 2026-10-24 21:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:markdown-it:linkify-it:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

References 3