CVE-2015-8854 — Regex Denial of Service in Project Marked

CWE-1333 — Regex Denial of Service10 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Marked Project MarkedDebian Node-markedFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedJan 23
Latest updateOct 24

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)."

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/node-marked< node-marked 0.3.6+dfsg-1 (bookworm)

Also affects: Fedora 31, 32

Patches

Patch: nodesecurity.io ↗Patch: nodesecurity.io ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked↗2017-10-24
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GHSA
Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked↗2017-10-24
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OSV
CVE-2015-8854: The marked package before 0↗2017-01-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2015-8854: node-marked - The marked package before 0.3.4 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial o...↗2015
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📐Framework References

1
CWE
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity↗
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8854 marked: regular expression denial of service [epel-6]↗2016-04-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8854 marked: regular expression denial of service↗2016-04-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8854 marked: regular expression denial of service [fedora-all]↗2016-04-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8854 marked: regular expression denial of service [epel-7]↗2016-04-22
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