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{"bugzilla": {"description": "markdown2: markdown2: Denial of Service via crafted Markdown document", "id": "2553572", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2553572"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "5.3", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-1333", "details": ["A flaw was found in markdown2. In the extract_metadata function, an inefficient regular expression used to parse document metadata can take an exponential amount of time to process. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing a crafted Markdown document, causing excessive resource consumption and leading to a Denial of Service (DoS)."], "name": "CVE-2026-88753", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Fix deferred", "package_name": "openshift4/ose-olm-catalogd-rhel9", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}], "public_date": "2026-10-15T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-88753\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88753\nhttps://gist.github.com/NanaSec/354b4188bbd7f4105008c7b8be49b0ba"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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