CVE-2020-5238 — Denial of service in table parsing in cmark-gfm
The table extension in GitHub Flavored Markdown before version 0.29.0.gfm.1 takes O(n * n) time to parse certain inputs. An attacker could craft a markdown table which would tak…
Published: 2020-07-01 · CVSS: 6.5 · CVSS 3.1
The table extension in GitHub Flavored Markdown before version 0.29.0.gfm.1 takes O(n * n) time to parse certain inputs. An attacker could craft a markdown table which would take an unreasonably long time to process, causing a denial of service. This issue does not affect the upstream cmark project. The issue has been fixed in version 0.29.0.gfm.1.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7