Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting commonmarker package, versions <0.23.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.05% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-COMMONMARKER-2415031
  • published4 Mar 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2022
  • creditFelix Wilhelm

Introduced: 3 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-24724  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade commonmarker to version 0.23.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound in table-row parsing, when parsing marker rows that contain more than UINT16_MAX columns.

Note If affected versions are used for rendering remote user-controlled markdown, this vulnerability may lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE).

Workaround

The vulnerability exists in the table markdown extensions of cmark-gfm. Disabling any use of the table extension will prevent this vulnerability from being triggered.

CVSS Scores

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