GHSA-xxmq-4vph-956w – comrak

Package

Manager: cargo
Name: comrak
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <0.17.0

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: N/A pctlN/A

Details

Comrak vulnerable to production of excessive output when parsing Markdown (GHSL-2023-048) ### Impact comrak is vulnerable to the upstream cmark issue, ["Issue revealed by fuzzer"](https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/354). A large number of references in a markdown document can trigger an overly large response. ### Patches 0.17.0 contains https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/commit/70f97f3ea4eae30ffbd1b94c764a3de2f1c41d2a, which limits reference output to a 100Kb maximum. ### Workarounds n/a ### References * https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/354

Metadata

Created: 2023-03-28T14:44:04Z
Modified: 2023-03-28T14:44:04Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/03/GHSA-xxmq-4vph-956w/GHSA-xxmq-4vph-956w.json
CWE IDs: []
Alternative ID: N/A
Finding: F067
Auto approve: 1