CVE-2020-5238

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

01/07/2020

Last modified:

07/11/2023

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

4.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:github_flavored_markdown_project:github_flavored_markdown::::::::		0.29.0.gfm.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:::::::*

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CVE-2020-5238

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools