GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/03/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v
Aliases
Published
2023-03-28T14:40:29Z
Modified
2023-11-08T04:12:12Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
Comrak vulnerable to quadratic runtime issues when parsing Markdown (GHSL-2023-047)
Details

Impact

A range of quadratic parsing issues from cmark/cmark-gfm are also present in Comrak. These can be used to craft denial-of-service attacks on services that use Comrak to parse Markdown.

Patches

0.17.0 contains fixes to known quadratic parsing issues.

Workarounds

n/a

References

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2023-03-28T14:40:29Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2023-03-28T21:15:00Z",
    "severity":  "MODERATE"
}
References

Affected packages

crates.io / comrak

Package

Name
comrak
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Purl
pkg:cargo/comrak

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.17.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/03/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v.json"