gjtorikian/commonmarker · Security

Commonmarker vulnerable to to several quadratic complexity bugs that may lead to denial of service

GHSA ID
GHSA-48wp-p9qv-4j64
Severity
medium
Published
Updated

Description

Impact

Several quadratic complexity bugs in commonmarker's underlying cmark-gfm library may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service.

The following vulnerabilities were addressed:

For more information, consult the release notes for version 0.23.0.gfm.10 and 0.23.0.gfm.11.

Mitigation

Users are advised to upgrade to commonmarker version 0.23.9.

References