medfreeman/markdown-it-toc-and-anchor · Security
Denial of Service in markdown-it-toc-and-anchor
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-x6m6-5hrf-fh6r
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
All versions of markdown-it-toc-and-anchor are vulnerable to Denial of Service. Parsing markdown containing **text**+\n@[toc] causes the application to enter and infinite loop.
Recommendation
No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative module until a fix is made available.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption