CVE-2018-18385

HIGH

Asciidoctor < 1.5.8 - Infinite Loop

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). The loop was caused by the fact that Parser.next_block was not exhausting all the lines in the reader as the while loop expected it would. This was happening because the regular expression that detects any list was not agreeing with the regular expression that detects a specific list type. So the line kept getting pushed back onto the reader, hence causing the loop.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/2888

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0053
EPSS Percentile 67.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (2)
asciidoctor/asciidoctor < 1.5.8
rubygems/asciidoctor 0 - 1.5.8RubyGems
Published Oct 16, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026