markdown2 is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS). The vulnerability exists as the regular expressions found in self.regex_defns
, _fenced_code_block_re
, and _emacs_oneliner_vars_pat
causes a huge consumption of resources when parsing strings with many whitespace or newline characters.
github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/commit/7b651260739647de5198323e0445b1618750c374
github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/pull/387
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