cve-2023-24824
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-31 22:01
Modified
2024-08-02 11:03
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
Quadratic complexity may lead to a denial of service in cmark-gfm
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/commit/2300c1bd2c8226108885bf019655c4159cf26b59Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-66g8-4hjf-77xhExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
githubcmark-gfm
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