Intel

AIKIDO-2024-10544

mui-markdown is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Dec 18, 2024

24

Low Risk

This Affects:

JSmui-markdown
5.14.1 - 6.1.10
Fixed in 6.2.0
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted input strings, causing excessive CPU usage, application hangs, and potential denial of service.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

mui-markdown is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in versions 5.14.1 - 6.1.10.

How to fix this

Upgrade the mui-markdown library to the patch version.