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Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 9, 2024

Package

npm marked (npm)

Affected versions

< 0.3.4

Patched versions

0.3.4

Description

Versions 0.3.3 and earlier of marked are affected by a regular expression denial of service ( ReDoS ) vulnerability when passed inputs that reach the em inline rule.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.3.4 or later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 23, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Feb 9, 2024

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-8854

GHSA ID

GHSA-hjcp-j389-59ff

Source code

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