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Security checkJuly 24, 2023

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in markdown-it

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Medium severitynpmmarkdown-it

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Description

Special patterns with length > 50K chars can slow down parser significantly.

Recommendation

Update the markdown-it package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 12.3.2
  • Patched version(s): 12.3.2

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