🛡️ CVE-2026-40890
🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-125 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The package `github.com/gomarkdown/markdown` is a Go library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML. Processing a malformed input containing a character anywhere in the remaining text with a SmartypantsRenderer will lead to Out of Bounds read or a panic. This vulnerability is fixed with commit 759bbc3e32073c3bc4e25969c132fc520eda2778.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-14
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-05-05

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/gomarkdown/markdown
markdown 2026-04-10

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