{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-07-01T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "cmark-gfm: Exponential time to parse certain inputs could lead to DoS",
    "id" : "1854328",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1854328"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-20",
  "details" : [ "The table extension in GitHub Flavored Markdown before version 0.29.0.gfm.1 takes O(n * n) time to parse certain inputs. An attacker could craft a markdown table which would take an unreasonably long time to process, causing a denial of service. This issue does not affect the upstream cmark project. The issue has been fixed in version 0.29.0.gfm.1." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1972",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb",
    "package" : "pandoc-0:2.0.6-5.el8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5238\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5238" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-5238",
  "csaw" : false
}