CVE-2026-40890

Exploitation

Public exploit code exists. CISA's assessment records a public proof of concept. That is not a report of exploitation in the wild.

SSVC decision

• ExploitationpocPublic proof-of-concept exploit code exists. Not a report of exploitation in the wild.
• AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
• Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.

CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.

EPSS probability

0.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 27.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-26.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2026-04-21 19:51Z6 MO AGO

Last updated

2026-04-21 20:36Z6 MO AGO

Reserved

2026-04-15

Assigning CNA

GitHub_M

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.5)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
• CWE-1286Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of InputBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

549eae2cfc9c2ec9740caf07eeb18ed6a779ce5f639224a4a941903412b0898b

• github.comhttps://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/advisories/GHSA-77fj-vx54-gvh7x_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/commit/759bbc3e32073c3bc4e25969c132fc520eda2778x_refsource_MISC