Comrak vulnerable to production of excessive output when parsing Markdown (GHSL-2023-048)

Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2023-03-28

Comrak vulnerable to production of excessive output when parsing Markdown (GHSL-2023-048)

Technologies: comrak (crates.io). Vendors: crates.io.

Quick answers

Is This vulnerability exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of This vulnerability being exploited in the wild.
How severe is This vulnerability?
Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 28 March 2023.
Which products and versions are affected?
comrak (crates.io) SEMVER:introduced=0,fixed=0.17.0.
Is there a fix for This vulnerability?
Yes. comrak (crates.io): upgrade to 0.17.0 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected?
Check whether you run comrak (crates.io) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • comrak (crates.io): upgrade to 0.17.0 or later
    cargo update -p comrak

Affected products

  • comrak (crates.io) SEMVER:introduced=0,fixed=0.17.0

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