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GHSA-4qw4-jpp4-8gvp

Unbounded resource exhaustion in cmark-gfm autolink extension may lead to denial of service

Quick fix

GHSA-4qw4-jpp4-8gvp — commonmarker: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update commonmarker

Details

### Impact

CommonMarker uses `cmark-gfm` for rendering [Github Flavored Markdown](https://github.github.com/gfm/). A polynomial time complexity issue in cmark-gfm's autolink extension may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service.

### Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in the following CommonMarker release:

- v0.23.6

### Workarounds

Disable use of the autolink extension.

### References

https://github.com/gjtorikian/commonmarker/pull/190 https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-cgh3-p57x-9q7q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity

### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [github/cmark-gfm](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm)

### Acknowledgements

We would like to thank [Legit Security](https://www.legitsecurity.com) for reporting this vulnerability.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/commonmarker
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.23.6
Fixbundle update commonmarker

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