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Security advisory
In mistune through 2.0.2, support of inline markup is implemented by using regular expressions that can involve a high amount of backtracking on certain edge cases. This behavior is commonly named catastrophic backtracking.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-34749
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 18:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In mistune through 2.0.2, support of inline markup is implemented by using regular expressions that can involve a high amount of backtracking on certain edge cases. This behavior is commonly named catastrophic backtracking.
osv:CVE-2022-34749
Complete source record
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