Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-39663 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mathjax

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

mathjax

NVD

Published: 2023-08-29

Updated: 2024-05-14

Summary

Mathjax up to v2.7.9 was discovered to contain two Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities in MathJax.js via the components pattern and markdownPattern. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because the regular expressions are not applied to user input; thus, there is no risk.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Mathjax Mathjax Mathjax 1.1 Mathjax Mathjax 2.0.0 Mathjax Mathjax 2.1.0 Mathjax Mathjax 2.2.0 Mathjax Mathjax 2.3.0 Mathjax Mathjax 2.4.0 Mathjax Mathjax 2.5.0 Mathjax Mathjax 2.5.1 Mathjax Mathjax 2.5.2 Mathjax Mathjax 2.5.3 Mathjax Mathjax 2.6.0 Mathjax Mathjax 2.6.1 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.0 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.1 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.2 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.3 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.4 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.5 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.6 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.7 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.8 Mathjax Mathjax 2.7.9	30

References

https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/3074