GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v
Comrak vulnerable to quadratic runtime issues when parsing Markdown (GHSL-2023-047)
Details
### Impact A range of quadratic parsing issues from `cmark`/`cmark-gfm` are also present in Comrak. These can be used to craft denial-of-service attacks on services that use Comrak to parse Markdown.
### Patches 0.17.0 contains fixes to known quadratic parsing issues.
### Workarounds
n/a
### References
* https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/255 * https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/389 * https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/373 * https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/299 * https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/388 * https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/284 * https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/218 * https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/pull/232 * https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/blob/c32ef78bae851cb83b7ad52d0fbff880acdcd44a/test/pathological_tests.py#L63-L65 * https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/blob/c32ef78bae851cb83b7ad52d0fbff880acdcd44a/test/pathological_tests.py#L87-L89
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Affected packages
0Fixed in: 0.17.0Upgrade comrak to 0.17.0 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).
References
- https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/security/advisories/GHSA-8hqf-xjwp-p67v[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28626[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/389[WEB]
- https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/388[WEB]
- https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/373[WEB]
- https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/299[WEB]
- https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/284[WEB]
- https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/255[WEB]
- https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/issues/218[WEB]
- https://github.com/commonmark/cmark/pull/232[WEB]
- https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/commit/ce795b7f471b01589f842dc09af38b025701178d[WEB]
- https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/blob/c32ef78bae851cb83b7ad52d0fbff880acdcd44a/test/pathological_tests.py#L63-L65[WEB]
- https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/blob/c32ef78bae851cb83b7ad52d0fbff880acdcd44a/test/pathological_tests.py#L87-L89[WEB]
- https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/releases/tag/0.17.0[WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OUYME2VA555X6567H7ORIJQFN4BVGT6N[WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PTWZWCT7KCX2KTXTLPUYZ3EHOONG4X46[WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VQ3UBC7LE4VPCMZBTADIBL353CH7CPVV[WEB]