Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-28626 - Unspecified vulnerability in Comrak Project Comrak
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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`
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/commit/ce795b7f471b01589f842dc09af38b025701178d
- https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/security/advisories/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OUYME2VA555X6567H7ORIJQFN4BVGT6N/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PTWZWCT7KCX2KTXTLPUYZ3EHOONG4X46/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VQ3UBC7LE4VPCMZBTADIBL353CH7CPVV/
- https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/commit/ce795b7f471b01589f842dc09af38b025701178d
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VQ3UBC7LE4VPCMZBTADIBL353CH7CPVV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PTWZWCT7KCX2KTXTLPUYZ3EHOONG4X46/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OUYME2VA555X6567H7ORIJQFN4BVGT6N/
- https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/security/advisories/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v