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CVE-2023-28626GHSA-8HQF-XJWP-P67V

Quadratic runtime when parsing Markdown in comrak

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.17.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

comrak is a CommonMark + GFM compatible Markdown parser and renderer written in rust. A range of quadratic parsing issues are present in Comrak. These can be used to craft denial-of-service attacks on services that use Comrak to parse Markdown. This issue has been addressed in version 0.17.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue is also tracked as `GHSL-2023-047`

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • kivikakk comrak

    fixed in 0.17.0

  • comrakcrates.io

    fixed in 0.17.0

References 5

GitHub · kivikakk/comrak

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