CVE-2018-25110 Affecting node-marked package, versions <0.5.1+dfsg-1
Threat Intelligence
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- published25 May 2025
- disclosed23 May 2025
Introduced: 23 May 2025
NewCVE-2018-25110 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable node-marked to version 0.5.1+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-marked package and not the node-marked package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
Marked prior to version 0.3.17 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack due to catastrophic backtracking in several regular expressions used for parsing HTML tags and markdown links. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted markdown input, such as deeply nested or repetitively structured brackets or tag attributes, which cause the parser to hang and lead to a Denial of Service.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-25110
- https://github.com/Checkmarx/Vulnerabilities-Proofs-of-Concept/tree/main/2018/CVE-2018-25110
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/commit/20bfc106013ed45713a21672ad4a34df94dcd485
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/issues/1070
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/pull/1083