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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-105749 EUVD-2026-92812GHSA-cgc7-9qp3-86m3PYSEC-2026-4195PYSEC-2026-4211

Docling: Unbounded table rowspan/colspan in HTML, JATS, ODS and BoxNote backends causes CPU/memory exhaustion

Published Oct 5, 2026 · Updated Oct 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats and providing integrations with the generative AI ecosystem. From 2.0.0 until 2.131.0, the HTML, JATS, OpenDocument spreadsheet, and BoxNote backends, including docling/backend/html_backend.py, docling/backend/jats_backend.py, and docling/backend/boxnote_backend.py, accept the rowspan and colspan attribute values without an upper bound and execute loops or allocate a table grid proportional to the declared span. A very small document can therefore cause sustained CPU use or multi-gigabyte memory allocation, and the document_timeout setting does not interrupt the single backend conversion call. Export through the TableData.grid property can further materialize the oversized grid. This issue is fixed in 2.131.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
docling-project docling >= 2.0.0, < 2.131.0 —
docling-project docling-slim >= 2.92.0, < 2.131.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI docling >= 2.0.0, < 2.131.0 2.131.0 GHSA-cgc7-9qp3-86m3
PyPI docling-slim >= 2.92.0, < 2.131.0 2.131.0 GHSA-cgc7-9qp3-86m3

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