Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in markdown-it

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

References

• GHSA-6vfc-qv3f-vr6c
• CVE-2022-21670
• CWE-1333
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in node-opcua - CVE-2022-21208
• Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Hawk - CVE-2022-29167
• Open WebUI Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability - CVE-2024-12534
• Open WebUI Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability - open-webui - CVE-2024-12537

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Tags:

npm

markdown-it