CVE-2023-28626

MEDIUM

Comrak <0.17.0 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

comrak is a CommonMark + GFM compatible Markdown parser and renderer written in rust. A range of quadratic parsing issues are present in Comrak. These can be used to craft denial-of-service attacks on services that use Comrak to parse Markdown. This issue has been addressed in version 0.17.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue is also tracked as `GHSL-2023-047`

References (5)

Core 5

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0051
EPSS Percentile 66.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
comrak_project/comrak < 0.17.0
crates.io/comrak 0 - 0.17.0crates.io
Published Mar 28, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026