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TI-2023-30782 Aliases GHSA-7vh7-fw88-wj87

Several quadratic complexity bugs may lead to denial of service in Commonmarker

Priority LOW 38CWE-407Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
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Privileges required
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User interaction
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Attack complexity
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Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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Fix status
Fixed

No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-407.

Summary

## Impact Several quadratic complexity bugs in commonmarker's underlying [`cmark-gfm`](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm) library may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. The following vulnerabilities were addressed: * [CVE-2023-37463](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/security/advisories/GHSA-w4qg-3vf7-m9x5) For more information, consult the release notes for version [`0.29.0.gfm.12`](https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm/releases/tag/0.29.0.gfm.12). ## Mitigation Users are advised to upgrade to commonmarker version [`0.23.10`](https://rubygems.org/gems/commonmarker/versions/0.23.10).

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed commonmarker (RubyGems): 0.23.10

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—commonmarker (RubyGems)before 0.23.100.23.10Patch availableGHSA-7vh7-fw88-wj87
  • commonmarker (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected before 0.23.10 Fixed in 0.23.10 Patch available GHSA-7vh7-fw88-wj87

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-7vh7-fw88-wj87 commonmarker (RubyGems) Fixed in 0.23.10 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-7vh7-fw88-wj87

References

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