CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-21670

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2022-01-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-01-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-1333, CWE-400

Description

markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Prior to version 1.3.2, special patterns with length greater than 50 thousand characterss could slow down the parser significantly. Users should upgrade to version 12.3.2 to receive a patch. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

Affected configurations

• markdown-it project markdown-it (<= 12.3.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References