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Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting asciidoctor package, versions <1.5.8

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.25% (65th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ASCIIDOCTOR-72630
  • published 28 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 16 Sep 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 16 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-18385 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Asciidoctor to version 1.5.8 or higher.

Overview

Asciidoctor is open source text processor and publishing toolchain, written in Ruby, for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook 5 (or 4.5) and other formats.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks via the next_block method.