🛡️ GHSA-7vh7-fw88-wj87 — commonmarker (CVE-2023-37463)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-407 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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

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).

Weakness class

GHSA-7vh7-fw88-wj87 is classified as CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity. Crafted input drives an algorithm into its worst case, so a small request costs disproportionate work.

Affected software

GHSA-7vh7-fw88-wj87 is recorded against 1 package.

  • commonmarker (fixed in 0.23.10)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 August 2023 and last revised on 1 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
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github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
rubygems.org (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-407
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-08-08
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-12-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
commonmarker 0.23.10

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