HighGHSA-x5pg-88wf-qq4pCVE-2017-16114
Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked
Published 24 Jul 2018 · Updated 8 Nov 2023
Affected package
markednpm
- Affected
- <0.3.9
- Fixed in
- 0.3.9
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:
npm install marked@0.3.9Details
Affected versions of marked are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service.
The amplification in this vulnerability is significant, with 1,000 characters resulting in the event loop being blocked for around 6 seconds.
Recommendation
Update to version 0.3.9 or later.
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References
Advisory data from OSV.dev (opens OSV.dev in a new tab), refreshed daily.