CVE-2017-16114: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information published in the public issue, 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds.

References

github.com/chjj/marked/issues/937
nodesecurity.io/advisories/531
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16114

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