Description
A vulnerability has been found in simple-markdown 0.5.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file simple-markdown.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.5.2 is able to address this issue. The patch is named 89797fef9abb4cab2fb76a335968266a92588816. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-220639.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.220639
Third Party Advisory signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220639
Patch patch
https://github.com/ariabuckles/simple-markdown/commit/89797fef9abb4cab2fb76a335968266a92588816
Release Notes patch
https://github.com/ariabuckles/simple-markdown/releases/tag/0.5.2
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0048
EPSS Percentile
65.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Details
CWE
CWE-1333
Status
published
Products (2)
khanacademy/simple-markdown
0.5.1
npm/simple-markdown
0 - 0.5.2npm
Published
Feb 12, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026