Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting node-markdown-it package, versions <10.0.0+dfsg-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.16% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-NODEMARKDOWNIT-11761912
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed10 Jan 2022

Introduced: 10 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-21670  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 node-markdown-it to version 10.0.0+dfsg-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-markdown-it package and not the node-markdown-it package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

markdown-it is a Markdown parser. Prior to version 1.3.2, special patterns with length greater than 50 thousand characterss could slow down the parser significantly. Users should upgrade to version 12.3.2 to receive a patch. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1