CVE-2018-25110

HIGH

Marked <0.3.17 - ReDoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Marked prior to version 0.3.17 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack due to catastrophic backtracking in several regular expressions used for parsing HTML tags and markdown links. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted markdown input, such as deeply nested or repetitively structured brackets or tag attributes, which cause the parser to hang and lead to a Denial of Service.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0077
EPSS Percentile 73.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1333
Status published
Products (2)
marked_project/marked < 0.3.17
npm/marked 0 - 0.3.17npm
Published May 23, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026