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The Sanitizer Is the Weapon: CVE-2026-68749 & CVE-2026-68750 — Quadratic Denial of Service in Elixir's html_sanitize_ex

On August 6, 2026, NIST’s National Vulnerability Database published two closely related vulnerabilities in html_sanitize_ex, the long-standing HTML-sanitization library for Elixir/Erlang applications. CVE-2026-68749 is a regex-catastrophe in the CSS scrubber; CVE-2026-6875…