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Description

The package github.com/gomarkdown/markdown is a Go library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML. Prior to 0.0.0-20260724235538-61af6e1e6971, parser.IsSafeURL in parser/parser.go slices url[:nPath] before the len(url) >= nPath guard. A short destination causes a slice-bounds panic when the loop reaches a relative-path prefix for which len(url) < nPath and cap(url) < nPath. The one-byte destination / is an explicit non-panic counterexample because it matches the first valid path and returns before a longer prefix is sliced. Demonstrated panic cases include empty, ., and .. destinations under those conditions. The panic is reachable when markdown.ToHTML renders untrusted Markdown with html.Safelink enabled, including an empty link destination, and is also reachable by callers that pass a short attacker-controlled URL directly to the exported parser.IsSafeURL function. An uncaught panic can terminate the calling process and cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in 0.0.0-20260724235538-61af6e1e6971.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gomarkdown markdown < 0.0.0-20260724235538-61af6e1e6971 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown 0.0~git20260725.8435af3-1 —
Debian 13 golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown No fix yet —
Debian 12 golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS golang-github-gomarkdown-markdown No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling fq 0.18.0-r3 —
Wolfi rolling kube-metrics-adapter 0.2.9-r26 —
Wolfi rolling snyk-cli 1.1308.1-r2 —
Wolfi rolling temporal 1.9.1-r4 —
Wolfi rolling temporal-ui-server 2.56.0-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/gomarkdown/markdown < 0.0.0-20260724235538-61af6e1e6971 0.0.0-20260724235538-61af6e1e6971 GHSA-cv23-7vc5-jfh7

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