Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Affecting simple-markdown package, versions <0.5.2


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-SIMPLEMARKDOWN-460540
  • published 1 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 30 Aug 2019
  • credit ariabuckles

Introduced: 30 Aug 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade simple-markdown to version 0.5.2 or higher.

Overview

simple-markdown is a markdown-like parser designed for simplicity and extensibility.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via inline code blocks.