UBUNTU-CVE-2025-69534
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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-69534
Summary:
Details: Python-Markdown version 3.8 contain a vulnerability where malformed HTML-like sequences can cause html.parser.HTMLParser to raise an unhandled AssertionError during Markdown parsing. Because Python-Markdown does not catch this exception, any application that processes attacker-controlled Markdown may crash. This enables remote, unauthenticated Denial of Service in web applications, documentation systems, CI/CD pipelines, and any service that renders untrusted Markdown. The issue was acknowledged by the vendor and fixed in version 3.8.1. This issue causes a remote Denial of Service in any application parsing untrusted Markdown, and can lead to Information Disclosure through uncaught exceptions.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-69534, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69534, https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown, https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown/actions/runs/15736122892, https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/133834/changes/4fb000658ea11daf9b196c03c8d61908367e474e, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8509-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8614-1
Affected packages
Package
Name: python2.7
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/python2.7?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
