CVE-2026-86435

Name	CVE-2026-86435
Description	commonmark versions from 1.5.0 before 2.8.4 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the Footnote extension that fails to deduplicate footnote definitions. Attackers can craft documents with duplicate footnote definitions and references to create quadratic output expansion, consuming excessive memory and CPU to exhaust server resources.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
php-league-commonmark (PTS)	bookworm	2.3.9-1+deb12u1	vulnerable
	trixie	2.7.0-1+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	2.10.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
php-league-commonmark	source	(unstable)	2.9.0-1

Notes

https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/security/advisories/GHSA-jfm3-95jq-q3rf
Fixed by: https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/commit/66028124a17ba193da7b11cc3dfda92df21bfbf4 (2.9.0)