SB2023040325 - Multiple vulnerabilities in cmark-gfm
Published: April 3, 2023
Breakdown by Severity
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- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-24824)
CWE-ID: CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the polynomial time complexity issue. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26485)
CWE-ID: CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the polynomial time complexity issue. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-66g8-4hjf-77xh
- https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/commit/2300c1bd2c8226108885bf019655c4159cf26b59
- https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-r8vr-c48j-fcc5
- https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/commit/07a66c9bc341f902878e37d7da8647d6ef150987