CVE-2018-25110
Description
A regular expression denial of service was found in markedjs. This issue may be triggered through specially crafted input that can lead to catastrophic recursion, where the process repeatedly calls itself into an uncontrolled loop, consuming all available system resources and possibly leading to denial of service.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)
Attackers can create crafted inputs that intentionally cause the regular expression to use excessive backtracking in a way that causes the CPU consumption to spike.
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