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GHSA-636f-xm5j-pj9m (commonmarker): Several quadratic complexity bugs may lead to denial of service in Commonmarker

ADVISORIES

GEM

commonmarker

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • >= 0.23.7

DESCRIPTION

Impact

Several quadratic complexity bugs in commonmarker’s underlying cmark-gfm library may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service.

The following vulnerabilities were addressed:

For more information, consult the release notes for version 0.23.0.gfm.7.

Mitigation

Users are advised to upgrade to commonmarker version 0.23.7.

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