CVE-2026-97701
Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool
- Risk score
- 46/100
- CVSS
- 6.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.4%
- Published
- 4 Nov 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. In Zulip Server versions through 12.1, the authenticated POST /messages/render endpoint renders the content parameter without enforcing the normal message length limit used by message send and edit operations. An authenticated user can submit Markdown up to the server b…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Upgrade the product to 12.2 or later.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.5 medium
References
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/31773c77c501391ede0fa8ec727f39508664e0ae
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/4d94dd2ee6337a4b3351694dd314a45d3fe11031
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/39913
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/releases/tag/12.2
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-m257-w4r5-5rmf
- https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/changelog.html#zulip-server-12-2
Original description
Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. In Zulip Server versions through 12.1, the authenticated POST /messages/render endpoint renders the content parameter without enforcing the normal message length limit used by message send and edit operations. An authenticated user can submit Markdown up to the server body-size limit, causing disproportionate backend CPU consumption, and repeated or concurrent requests can degrade Markdown rendering performance or backend availability for other users. This issue is fixed in version 12.2.
Last activity 4 Nov 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.