CVE-2022-39209 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in cmark-gfm

2022-09-1500:00:00

CWE-400

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

cve

resource exhaustion

denial of service

cmark-gfm

vulnerability

autolink extension

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.6

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

55.1%

JSON

cmark-gfm is GitHub’s fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. In versions prior to 0.29.0.gfm.6 a polynomial time complexity issue in cmark-gfm’s autolink extension may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. Users may verify the patch by running python3 -c 'print("![l"* 100000 + "\n")' | ./cmark-gfm -e autolink, which will resource exhaust on unpatched cmark-gfm but render correctly on patched cmark-gfm. This vulnerability has been patched in 0.29.0.gfm.6. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable the use of the autolink extension.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "vendor": "github",
    "product": "cmark-gfm",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 0.29.0.gfm.6",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]