CVE detail
CVE-2026-68750
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in the traversal engine in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server CPU and memory via a flat run of sibling elements in sanitized HTML. The list clause of HtmlSanitizeEx.Traverser.traverse/2 recurses on the tail of a sibling list and then evaluates List.flatten([head] ++ tail) over the already flattened result, so every one of n siblings copies and re-walks the entire remaining tail. The flattening is only needed for the rare case where scrub returns several replacement nodes for one node, but the cost is paid across the whole tail at every step, making traversal quadratic in sibling count. The traverser sits on every public entry point, so no particular scrubber or configuration is required and the payload needs only allowed tags. A 160 KB body of 20,000 sibling elements occupies a scheduler for roughly 1.7 seconds, and the cost grows faster than the body does. This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.5.3.
Buzz score
Why this CVE is surfacing
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Buzz score components · mention 16.1 · diversity 11.5 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Why it matters now
Mention timeline
- Total mentions
- 4
- within the 30d window
- Peak daily
- 4
- highest bucket
Evidence
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4 source links · newest first
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Exploitosv.devAug 6, 2026, 4:16 PMNo excerpt available.
Exploitgithub.comAug 6, 2026, 4:16 PM- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/9f5ccedbed230930813f992a1e6906fcf485981egithub.com
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Exploitgithub.comAug 6, 2026, 4:16 PM - https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-68750.htmlcna.erlef.org
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Vendor Advisorycna.erlef.orgAug 6, 2026, 4:16 PM
Exploit code
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