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CVSS 7.5 HIGH Vulnerability

CVE-2026-53530: ratex-parser panics on `\verb` with a multibyte delimiter (UTF-8 byte-boundary slice)

Summary The public parser entrypoint ratex_parser::parse(&str) panics on the 9-byte input \verbéxé (i.e. \verb followed by the non-ASCII delimiter é). When handling a \verb command, the parser slices the verbatim argume…

7.5CVSS Score
HIGHSeverity
NOCISA KEV
VulnerabilityImpact Type

📋 Vulnerability Details

CVE IDCVE-2026-53530
Vendorrust
Affected Productratex-parser
Vulnerability TypeVulnerability
CVSS Score7.5 (HIGH)
Actively Exploited❌ No known exploitation
Patch StatusSee Vendor Advisory →
Reported ByCYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via github_advisories)

🔬 Technical Analysis

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Summary The public parser entrypoint ratex_parser::parse(&str) panics on the 9-byte input \verbéxé (i.e. \verb followed by the non-ASCII delimiter é). When handling a \verb command, the parser slices the verbatim argument with byte indices (arg[1..arg.len() - 1]); if the delimiter character is multibyte UTF-8, index 1 lands inside that character and Rust panics with *“byte index 1 is not a char boundary”*. Because RaTeX’s release profile sets panic = "abort" (Cargo.toml:48), the panic aborts the entire process — not just the current request/thread — making this a hard denial of service for any service that renders untrusted LaTeX.

Details

Affected code crates/ratex-parser/src/parser.rs, parse_symbol_inner: ```rust

if let Some(stripped) = text.st

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