Description
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.
Recommendation
Update the marked package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:
- Affected version(s): < 0.3.17
- Patched version(s): 0.3.17
References
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See something that needs correcting? Let us knowUpdated May 27, 2025