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GHSA-g2gp-3wwq-f4ph: league/commonmark: Denial of service via adjacent inline attribute blocks

August 6, 2026

With the Attributes extension enabled, AttributesListener::findTargetAndDirection() resolves each attribute node’s target by walking outward through its siblings. For a run of N adjacent inline attribute blocks placed at the start of a block (with nothing to their left), each node scans the entire sibling list to the far-right end before giving up and falling back to the parent. Each resolution is therefore Θ(N) and the whole run is Θ(N²).

Reaching the path requires AttributesExtension (opt-in, but first-party: League\CommonMark\Extension\Attributes\AttributesExtension). No other configuration matters — the quadratic walk runs unconditionally during parsing and is not gated by the attributes/allow allow-list, the on* hardening added in 2.7.0, or allow_unsafe_links. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a ~32 KB input ({#a} repeated 8,000 times) that takes over 5 seconds to convert, with time growing quadratically in input length — a cheap denial of service. Availability impact only. The Attributes extension was introduced in 1.5.0 (May 2020) with this outward-walk resolver present from the first commit, so all releases from 1.5.0 onward (including every 2.x) are affected.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-g2gp-3wwq-f4ph
  • github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/commit/2d4c0fafa62501be919262064cffa6d71687430b
  • github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/releases/tag/2.9.0
  • github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/security/advisories/GHSA-g2gp-3wwq-f4ph

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.5.0 before 2.9.0

Fixed versions

  • 2.9.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.9.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Source file

packagist/league/commonmark/GHSA-g2gp-3wwq-f4ph.yml

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