CVE-2019-25103: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

February 12, 2023 (updated February 14, 2023)

A vulnerability has been found in simple-markdown 0.5.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file simple-markdown.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.5.2 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 89797fef9abb4cab2fb76a335968266a92588816. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-220639.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-gpvj-gp8c-c7p2
github.com/ariabuckles/simple-markdown/commit/89797fef9abb4cab2fb76a335968266a92588816
github.com/ariabuckles/simple-markdown/releases/tag/0.5.2
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25103
vuldb.com/?ctiid.220639
vuldb.com/?id.220639

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