CVE-2021-43308 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the markdown-link-extractor npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the module's exported function

Published: 2022-06-01

Score: 5.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

markdown-link-extractor

markdown-link-extractor

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 3.0.2

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:markdown-link-extractor_project:markdown-link-extractor::::::node.js::*
	cpe:2.3:a:markdown-link-extractor_project:markdown-link-extractor:4.0.0:::::node.js::

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-6096	An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the markdown-link-extractor npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the module's exported function
Github GHSA	GHSA-mmh6-m7v9-5956	Regular expression denial of service in markdown-link-extractor

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00351.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/markdown-link-extractor-redos-xray-211350/

History

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Subscriptions

Markdown-link-extractor Project Markdown-link-extractor

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: JFROG

Published: 2022-06-01T16:47:49.228Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T17:28:35.115Z

Reserved: 2021-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-43308

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-06-02T14:15:31.047

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:29:03.300

Link: CVE-2021-43308

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-1333

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