vulnerability / NVI-00005098 / Revision 1
league/commonmark: Denial of service via deeply nested XML output
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league/commonmark
source listedECOSYSTEM: introduced 2.0.0; fixed 2.9.0
### Impact `XmlRenderer` pretty-prints XML by emitting depth-proportional indentation whitespace for **every** opening and closing tag. For a tree of depth n, the indentation alone sums to **O(n²)** bytes of output (and corresponding memory), reachable through `MarkdownToXmlConverter` — e.g. `str_repeat('> ', $depth) . "x\n"`, a single line of nested blockquotes — or through a direct `XmlRenderer::renderDocument()` call on an attacker-influenced AST. This affects applications that convert untrusted Markdown to XML, which is an **opt-in** output path. The parser's `max_nesting_level` bounds the depth of *parser-created* trees, but its default is high enough to reach damaging sizes, can be raised by the host application, and does not constrain custom or programmatically built ASTs handed straight to the renderer. The result is a memory / output-size amplification rather than a hard crash, which is why this issue is rated **Medium** rather than High. No confidentiality or integrity impact. XML rendering was introduced in 2.0.0 (first shipped in 2.0.0-beta1, June 2021) and has emitted depth-proportional indentation ever since, so all 2.x releases are affected (verified against 2.8.x,
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- GHSA-mj63-m3rc-8ppr ↗
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