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CVE-2026-53531: ratex-parser has unbounded parser recursion that leads to stack overflow (process abort)

July 7, 2026

RaTeX’s recursive-descent parser recurses one (or more) native stack frame per nesting level at {, \left, \sqrt{, ^{, etc, with no maximum depth limit. A short, ~10 KB input of nested groups overflows the 8 MB main-thread stack and aborts the process. With panic = "abort" (Cargo.toml:48), and because a Rust stack overflow is always a fatal SIGABRT regardless of panic strategy this is an unrecoverable, whole-process denial of service reachable from a single untrusted LaTeX string.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-4w5h-hx6r-28q7
  • github.com/erweixin/RaTeX/security/advisories/GHSA-4w5h-hx6r-28q7
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53531

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.1.11

Fixed versions

  • 0.1.11

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.1.11 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Source file

cargo/ratex-parser/CVE-2026-53531.yml

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