CVE-2026-41680 HIGH

CVE-2026-41680: Marked: OOM Denial of Service via Infinite Recursion in marked Tokenizer

Vendor Markedjs
Product marked
Weakness CWE-400
Published April 24, 2026
Last update April 24, 2026
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CVSS base score

8.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Marked is a markdown parser and compiler. From 18.0.0 to 18.0.1, a critical Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in marked. By providing a specific 3-byte input sequence a tab, a vertical tab, and a newline (\x09\x0b\n)—an unauthenticated attacker can trigger an infinite recursion loop during parsing. This leads to unbounded memory allocation, causing the host Node.js application to crash via Memory Exhaustion (OOM). This vulnerability is fixed in 18.0.2.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 24, 2026 CVE published
April 24, 2026 Record updated