GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-gpvj-gp8c-c7p2 Regular Expression Denial of Service in simple-markdown

HIGH Published 2023-02-12 Modified 2026-02-03 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-25103
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
simple-markdown
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333
Reviewed
2023-02-14

Affected packages

• npm simple-markdown: < 0.5.2 → fixed in 0.5.2

Description

A vulnerability has been found in simple-markdown 0.5.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file simple-markdown.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.5.2 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 89797fef9abb4cab2fb76a335968266a92588816. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-220639.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-25103 A vulnerability has been found in simple-markdown 0.5.1 and classified as problematic. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References