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ubuntu-cve-2023-42821

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2023-09-22 17:15

Modified

2026-05-20 15:02

Summary

Details

The package github.com/gomarkdown/markdown is a Go library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML. Prior to pseudoversion 0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee, which corresponds with commit 14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940, parsing malformed markdown input with parser that uses parser.Mmark extension could result in out-of-bounds read vulnerability. To exploit the vulnerability, parser needs to have parser.Mmark extension set. The panic occurs inside the citation.go file on the line 69 when the parser tries to access the element past its length. This can result in a denial of service. Commit 14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940/pseudoversion 0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee contains a patch for this issue.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-42821	REPORT
	https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/commit/14b…	REPORT
	https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/a…	REPORT
	https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/blob/7478c…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-42821	REPORT

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  "modified": "2026-05-20T15:02:52Z",
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
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CVE-2023-42821 (GCVE-0-2023-42821)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-22 16:55 – Updated: 2024-09-24 19:27

Title

github.com/gomarkdown/markdown Out-of-bounds Read while parsing citations

Summary

The package `github.com/gomarkdown/markdown` is a Go library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML. Prior to pseudoversion `0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee`, which corresponds with commit `14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940`, parsing malformed markdown input with parser that uses parser.Mmark extension could result in out-of-bounds read vulnerability. To exploit the vulnerability, parser needs to have `parser.Mmark` extension set. The panic occurs inside the `citation.go` file on the line 69 when the parser tries to access the element past its length. This can result in a denial of service. Commit `14b16010c2ee7ff33a940a541d993bd043a88940`/pseudoversion `0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee` contains a patch for this issue.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-24 19:26 UTC

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/commit/14b…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/blob/7478c…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
gomarkdown	markdown	Affected: < 0.0.0-20230922105210-14b16010c2ee

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CVE-2023-42821 (GCVE-0-2023-42821)

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