Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-24824 - Unspecified vulnerability in Github Cmark-Gfm

CVSS 7.5 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

github

NVD

Published: 2023-03-31

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

cmark-gfm is GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. A polynomial time complexity issue in cmark-gfm may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. This CVE covers quadratic complexity issues when parsing text which leads with either large numbers of `>` or `-` characters. This issue has been addressed in version 0.29.0.gfm.10. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should validate that their input comes from trusted sources.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Github Github Cmark GFM - Github Cmark GFM 0.27.1.Gfm.0 Github Cmark GFM 0.27.1.Gfm.1 Github Cmark GFM 0.27.1.Gfm.2 Github Cmark GFM 0.27.1.Gfm.3 Github Cmark GFM 0.27.1.Gfm.4 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.0.Gfm.5 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.0.Gfm.6 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.0.Gfm.7 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.0.Gfm.8 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.0.Gfm.9 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.0.Gfm.10 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.0.Gfm.11 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.12 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.13 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.14 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.15 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.16 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.17 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.18 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.19 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.20 Github Cmark GFM 0.28.3.Gfm.21 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.0 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.1 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.2 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.3 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.4 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.5 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.6 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.7 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.8 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.9 Github Cmark GFM 0.29.0.Gfm.10	34

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

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