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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS04aHFmLXhqd3AtcDY3ds4AAyXm

Comrak vulnerable to quadratic runtime issues when parsing Markdown (GHSL-2023-047)

Impact

A range of quadratic parsing issues from cmark/cmark-gfm are also present in Comrak. These can be used to craft denial-of-service attacks on services that use Comrak to parse Markdown.

Patches

0.17.0 contains fixes to known quadratic parsing issues.

Workarounds

n/a

References

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS04aHFmLXhqd3AtcDY3ds4AAyXm
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: about 1 year ago
Updated: about 1 year ago


CVSS Score: 5.3
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Identifiers: GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v, CVE-2023-28626
References: Repository: https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak
Blast Radius: 14.5

Affected Packages

cargo:comrak
Dependent packages: 107
Dependent repositories: 541
Downloads: 1,152,477 total
Affected Version Ranges: < 0.17.0
Fixed in: 0.17.0
All affected versions: 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.1.5, 0.1.6, 0.1.7, 0.1.8, 0.1.9, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.2.5, 0.2.6, 0.2.7, 0.2.8, 0.2.9, 0.2.10, 0.2.11, 0.2.12, 0.2.13, 0.2.14, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3, 0.4.4, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.11.0, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.13.2, 0.14.0, 0.15.0, 0.16.0
All unaffected versions: 0.17.0, 0.17.1, 0.18.0, 0.19.0, 0.20.0, 0.21.0, 0.22.0, 0.23.0