Design/Logic Flaw

2023-03-2821:15:00

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comrak

markdown

parser

quadratic parsing

denial-of-service

vulnerability

upgrade

ghsl-2023-047

nvd

8.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

55.7%

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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