CVE-2025-69534 (GCVE-0-2025-69534)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-05 00:00 – Updated: 2026-03-06 21:07
VLAI?
Summary
Python-Markdown version 3.8 contain a vulnerability where malformed HTML-like sequences can cause html.parser.HTMLParser to raise an unhandled AssertionError during Markdown parsing. Because Python-Markdown does not catch this exception, any application that processes attacker-controlled Markdown may crash. This enables remote, unauthenticated Denial of Service in web applications, documentation systems, CI/CD pipelines, and any service that renders untrusted Markdown. The issue was acknowledged by the vendor and fixed in version 3.8.1. This issue causes a remote Denial of Service in any application parsing untrusted Markdown, and can lead to Information Disclosure through uncaught exceptions.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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