VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-28626

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.12%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-03-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

comrak is a CommonMark + GFM compatible Markdown parser and renderer written in rust. A range of quadratic parsing issues are present in Comrak. These can be used to craft denial-of-service attacks on services that use Comrak to parse Markdown. This issue has been addressed in version 0.17.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue is also tracked as `GHSL-2023-047`

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-400
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

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