CVE-2015-8854

HIGH

Marked < 0.3.4 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

The marked package before 0.3.4 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "catastrophic backtracking issue for the em inline rule," aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0089
EPSS Percentile 75.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-1333
Status published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora 31
fedoraproject/fedora 32
marked_project/marked < 0.3.4
npm/marked 0 - 0.3.4npm
Published Jan 23, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026