DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44898

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-44898
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44898.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44898
Upstream
Published
2026-05-26T21:16:39Z
Modified
2026-09-14T17:03:40Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.2.1, render_toc_ul() builds a

    table-of-contents tree from a list of (level, id, text) tuples. Both the id value (used as href="#") and the text value (used as the visible link label) are inserted into tags via a plain Python format string — with no HTML escaping applied to either value. When heading IDs are derived from user-supplied heading text (the standard use-case for readable slug anchors), an attacker can craft a heading whose text breaks out of the href="#..." attribute context, injecting arbitrary HTML tags including
References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / mistune

Package

Name
mistune
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mistune?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.4-1
2.0.4-2
3.*
3.0.2-1
3.0.2-2
3.1.3-1
3.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44898.json"

Debian:13 / mistune

Package

Name
mistune
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mistune?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.1.3-1
3.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44898.json"

Debian:14 / mistune

Package

Name
mistune
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mistune?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.1.3-1
3.1.4-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44898.json"