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CVE-2022-21680: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

January 14, 2022 (updated November 7, 2023)

The regular expression block.def may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings and lead to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS). Anyone who runs untrusted markdown through a vulnerable version of marked and does not use a worker with a time limit may be affected. This issue is patched As a workaround, avoid running untrusted markdown through marked or run marked on a worker thread and set a reasonable time limit to prevent draining resources.

References

  • github.com/markedjs/marked/commit/c4a3ccd344b6929afa8a1d50ac54a721e57012c0
  • github.com/markedjs/marked/releases/tag/v4.0.10
  • github.com/markedjs/marked/security/advisories/GHSA-rrrm-qjm4-v8hf
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21680

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 4.0.10

Fixed versions

  • 4.0.10

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.0.10 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Source file

npm/marked/CVE-2022-21680.yml

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