Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-26302

Low

Published: 22 February 2023

Published
22 February 2023
Modified
25 February 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.1th percentile
Risk Priority 7 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-26302 is a low-severity Improper Handling of Alternate Encoding (CWE-173) vulnerability in Executablebooks Markdown-It-Py. Its CVSS base score is 3.3 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 35.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Denial of service could be caused to the command line interface of markdown-it-py, before v2.2.0, if an attacker was allowed to use invalid UTF-8 characters as input.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

executablebooks
markdown-it-py
≤ 2.2.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References