GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-4r62-v4vq-hr96 Regular Expression Denial of Service (REDoS) in Marked
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-21306
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- marked
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2021-02-08
Affected packages
• npm marked: >= 1.1.1, < 2.0.0 → fixed in 2.0.0
Description
Impact
_What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?_
Regular expression Denial of Service
A Denial of Service attack can affect anyone who runs user generated code through `marked`.
Patches
_Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?_
patched in v2.0.0
Workarounds
_Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?_
None.
References
_Are there any links users can visit to find out more?_
https://github.com/markedjs/marked/issues/1927
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
• Open an issue in marked
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-21306 Marked is an open-source markdown parser and compiler (npm package "marked"). vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/security/advisories/GHSA-4r62-v4vq-hr96 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21306 advisory
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/issues/1927 web
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/pull/1864 web
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/commit/7293251c438e3ee968970f7609f1a27f9007bccd web
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/marked web