CVE-2018-25110 – marked

Package

Manager: npm
Name: marked
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <0.3.17

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/E:U/RL:O/RC:R

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: 0.00095 pctl0.27485

Details

Marked allows Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks Marked prior to version 0.3.17 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack due to catastrophic backtracking in several regular expressions used for parsing HTML tags and markdown links. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted markdown input, such as deeply nested or repetitively structured brackets or tag attributes, which cause the parser to hang and lead to a Denial of Service.

Metadata

Created: 2025-05-23T15:31:16Z
Modified: 2025-05-27T15:03:47Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/05/GHSA-p9wx-2529-fp83/GHSA-p9wx-2529-fp83.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-1333"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-p9wx-2529-fp83
Finding: F211
Auto approve: 1