CVE-2017-16114 Information

Description

The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information published in the public issue 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/chjj/marked/issues/937 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/531

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5