CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-42821
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-22
- 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 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The package `github.com/gomarkdown/markdown` is a Go library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML. Prior to pseudoversion `0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee`, which corresponds with commit `14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940`, parsing malformed markdown input with parser that uses parser.Mmark extension could result in out-of-bounds read vulnerability. To exploit the vulnerability, parser needs to have `parser.Mmark` extension set. The panic occurs inside the `citation.go` file on the line 69 when the parser tries to access the element past its length. This can result in a denial of service. Commit `14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940`/pseudoversion `0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee` contains a patch for this issue.
Affected configurations
• gomarkdown markdown
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/blob/7478c230c7cd3e7328803d89abe591d0b61c41e4/parser/citation.go#L69 Product
- https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/commit/14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940 Patch
- https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/advisories/GHSA-m9xq-6h2j-65r2 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/blob/7478c230c7cd3e7328803d89abe591d0b61c41e4/parser/citation.go#L69 Product
- https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/commit/14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940 Patch
- https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/advisories/GHSA-m9xq-6h2j-65r2 Exploit, Vendor Advisory