CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedMistune, a Python Markdown parser, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to inefficient handling of long sequences of emphasis pairs, which can lead to excessive processing time. This issue affects versions prior to 3.3.0 and should be prioritized by developers and organizations using Mistune for Markdown parsing to mitigate potential service disruptions. Users are advised to upgrade to version 3.3.0 or later to resolve this vulnerability.
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Original NVD Description
Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, long sequences of well-formed double-asterisk or triple-asterisk emphasis pairs around a character cause quadratic work in src/mistune/inline_parser.py because the parser scans forward for matching close markers from every potential opening run, allowing denial of service in default Mistune parsing. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.0.
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