CVE-2015-10005

markdown-it html_re.js redos

State: Published
Severity: 3.5 Low
Published: Dec 27, 2022
Updated: Apr 11, 2025
Reserved: Dec 27, 2022

Description

A vulnerability was found in markdown-it up to 2.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file lib/common/html_re.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. Upgrading to version 3.0.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 89c8620157d6e38f9872811620d25138fc9d1b0d. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216852.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.5 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	VulDB
3.0	3.5 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
markdown-itn/a	2.xAffected

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.216852vdb-entry
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.216852signaturepermissions-required
https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/commit/89c8620157d6e38f9872811620d25138fc9d1b0dpatch
https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/releases/tag/3.0.0patch

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