GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-qc9p-mjxm-j2wj Asciidoctor Infinite Loop vulnerability
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2018-18385
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- asciidoctor
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
- Reviewed
- 2023-01-24
Affected packages
• RubyGems asciidoctor: < 1.5.8 → fixed in 1.5.8
Description
Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). The loop was caused by the fact that `Parser.next_block` was not exhausting all the lines in the reader as the while loop expected it would. This was happening because the regular expression that detects any list was not agreeing with the regular expression that detects a specific list type. So the line kept getting pushed back onto the reader, hence causing the loop.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2018-18385 Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness