markdown-it vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Dec 27, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 3, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Dec 27, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Dec 27, 2022
Reviewed
Dec 30, 2022
Last updated
Feb 3, 2023
A vulnerability was found in markdown-it up to 2.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file
lib/common/html_re.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. Upgrading to version 3.0.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 89c8620157d6e38f9872811620d25138fc9d1b0d. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216852.References