CVE-2023-22484 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

cmark-gfm is GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. Versions prior to 0.29.0.gfm.7 are subject to a polynomial time complexity issue in cmark-gfm that may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. This vulnerability has been patched in 0.29.0.gfm.7.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Adjacent Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00083.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Github	Cmark-gfm

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:github:cmark-gfm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-26631	cmark-gfm is GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. Versions prior to 0.29.0.gfm.7 are subject to a polynomial time complexity issue in cmark-gfm that may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. This vulnerability has been patched in 0.29.0.gfm.7.
Ubuntu USN	USN-7319-1	cmark-gfm vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-24f7-9frr-5h2r

History

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-01-23T22:42:57.790Z

Updated: 2025-03-10T21:20:57.334Z

Reserved: 2022-12-29T17:41:28.088Z

Link: CVE-2023-22484

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:13:48.528Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-23T23:15:10.423

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:44:53.990

Link: CVE-2023-22484

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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