CVE-2015-8854
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.1%Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked
Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
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)."
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/node-markedfrom 0, < 0.3.6+dfsg-1
- npm/markedfrom 0, < 0.3.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hjcp-j389-59ff
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8854
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8854
- PATCHhttps://github.com/chjj/marked
- WEBhttps://github.com/chjj/marked/issues/497
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S
- WEBhttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
- WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/23
- WEBhttps://www.owasp.org/index.php/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11