CVE-2015-8854
Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
Description
The marked package before 0.3.4 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "catastrophic backtracking issue for the em inline rule," aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."
How to fix CVE-2015-8854
To remediate CVE-2015-8854, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.3.6+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.3.4 or later
Is CVE-2015-8854 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.3.6+dfsg-1
- from 0, < 0.3.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |