CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-26813
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
Description
markdown2 >=1.0.1.18, fixed in 2.4.0, is affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it can make markdown2 processing difficult or delayed for an extended period of time.
Affected configurations
• markdown2 project markdown2 (>= 1.0.1.18 < 2.4.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• fedoraproject fedora 34
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/pull/387 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRP5RN35JZTSJ3JT4722F447ZDK7LZS5/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J752422YELXLMLZJPVJVKD2KKHHQRVEH/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JTIX5UXRDJZJ57DO4V33ZNJTNKWGBQLY/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/pull/387 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BRP5RN35JZTSJ3JT4722F447ZDK7LZS5/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J752422YELXLMLZJPVJVKD2KKHHQRVEH/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JTIX5UXRDJZJ57DO4V33ZNJTNKWGBQLY/ lists.fedoraproject.org