CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2026-68538 fulgur: Unbounded counters() expansion in generated content causes memory/CPU exhaustion (denial of service)
High (7.5) in fulgur-rs fulgur. EPSS 0.6% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
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fulgur converts untrusted HTML/CSS into PDF, commonly on a server that processes input supplied by many tenants. From version 0.15.0 to before version 0.27.0, resolving the CSS counters(name, sep) function in generated content was bounded neither in the size of a single expansion nor in the aggregate work across an element tree. An attacker able to submit HTML/CSS to a fulgur-based conversion service can trigger CPU and memory exhaustion with a trivially small payload, denying service to the host and any co-tenants. This issue has been patched in version 0.27.0.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 49th percentile. Scored 2026-11-13. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
- CWE
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- Published
- Modified
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M (CNA)
- NVD analysis
- Deferred: the NVD does not plan to analyze it
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
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Versions
From the CNA's record in the CVE List.
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| fulgur-rs fulgur | >= 0.15.0, < 0.27.0 |
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- CAPEC-147 XML Ping of the Death Likelihood: Low · Severity: Medium
- CAPEC-227 Sustained Client Engagement
- CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup
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History
- The NVD deferred its analysis
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