MathJax Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Description

Mathjax up to v2.7.9 was discovered to contain two Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities in MathJax.js via the components pattern and markdownPattern. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because the regular expressions are not applied to user input; thus, there is no risk.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 2.7.9

References

• GHSA-v638-q856-grg8
• CVE-2023-39663
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

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• word-wrap vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service - CVE-2023-26115
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) - color-string - CVE-2021-29060
• tarteaucitron.js has Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability - CVE-2026-22809

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Tags:

npm

mathjax