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ModerateVulnerabilityGHSA-p9wx-2529-fp83CVE-2018-25110Published 23 May 2025

Marked allows Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks

Affected · marked

  • < 0.3.17

Fixed in

0.3.17

npm install marked@0.3.17
  1. Affected

    0.0.1 – 0.3.16

    44 releases

  2. Fixed

    0.3.17 – 18.1.1

    181 releases, latest

225 stable releases of marked, oldest to newest.

What happens

Marked prior to version 0.3.17 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack due to catastrophic backtracking in several regular expressions used for parsing HTML tags and markdown links. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted markdown input, such as deeply nested or repetitively structured brackets or tag attributes, which cause the parser to hang and lead to a Denial of Service.