Answer in brief
CVE-2026-86434 records a High severity (CVSS 8.7) vulnerability in commonmark 2.0.0 through 2.8.3 Denial of Service via Slug Collision. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps league/commonmark (composer), thephpleague/commonmark (generic), league/commonmark (packagist). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 8.7. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps league/commonmark (composer), thephpleague/commonmark (generic), league/commonmark (packagist). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| league/commonmarkcomposer | >=2.0.0,<2.9.0 | 2.9.0 |
| thephpleague/commonmarkgeneric | >=2.0.0 <2.8.4 | 2.8.4 |
| league/commonmarkpackagist | >=2.0.0 <2.9.0 | 2.9.0 |
Published upstream
Sep 7, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 20, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 6, 2026
league/commonmark versions >= 2.0.0 and < 2.8.4 (patched in 2.9.0) contain a denial of service vulnerability in UniqueSlugNormalizer::normalize(), which restarts its numeric-suffix search from 1 on every slug collision, resulting in O(K^2) time complexity for K headings that collapse to the same base slug. The vulnerable path is reached when HeadingPermalinkExtension, FootnoteExtension, or TableOfContentsExtension is registered. An unauthenticated attacker can force many headings onto a single base slug (e.g., via empty ATX headings, identical heading text, or punctuation-only headings) in a small Markdown document, consuming excessive CPU and denying service.
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