Update dependency marked to v4.0.10 [SECURITY] - autoclosed

Created by: renovate[bot]

This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
marked (source)	4.0.0 -> 4.0.10

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2022-21681

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it?

Denial of service.

The regular expression inline.reflinkSearch may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings. PoC is the following.

import * as marked from 'marked';

console.log(marked.parse(`[x]: x

\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](\\[\\](`));

Who is impacted?

Anyone who runs untrusted markdown through marked and does not use a worker with a time limit.

Patches

Has the problem been patched?

Yes

What versions should users upgrade to?

4.0.10

Workarounds

Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?

Do not run untrusted markdown through marked or run marked on a worker thread and set a reasonable time limit to prevent draining resources.

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

• https://marked.js.org/using_advanced#workers
• https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open an issue in marked

CVE-2022-21680

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it?

Denial of service.

The regular expression block.def may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings. PoC is the following.

import * as marked from "marked";

marked.parse(`[x]:${' '.repeat(1500)}x ${' '.repeat(1500)} x`);

Who is impacted?

Anyone who runs untrusted markdown through marked and does not use a worker with a time limit.

Patches

Has the problem been patched?

Yes

What versions should users upgrade to?

4.0.10

Workarounds

Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?

Do not run untrusted markdown through marked or run marked on a worker thread and set a reasonable time limit to prevent draining resources.

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

• https://marked.js.org/using_advanced#workers
• https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open an issue in marked

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Release Notes

markedjs/marked

v4.0.10

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Bug Fixes

• security: fix redos vulnerabilities (8f80657)

v4.0.9

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Bug Fixes

• retain line breaks in tokens properly (#​2341) (a9696e2)

v4.0.8

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Bug Fixes

• spaces on a newline after a table (#​2319) (f82ea2c)

v4.0.7

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Bug Fixes

• Fix every third list item broken (#​2318) (346b162), closes #​2314

v4.0.6

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Bug Fixes

• speed up parsing long lists (#​2302) (e0005d8)

v4.0.5

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Bug Fixes

• table after paragraph without blank line (#​2298) (5714212)

v4.0.4

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Bug Fixes

• fix cli (#​2294) (ab2977a)

v4.0.3

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Bug Fixes

• build min from umd (#​2283) (ea26ea9)

v4.0.2

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Bug Fixes

• Create separate CJS and UMD builds (#​2281) (62faaf4)

v4.0.1

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Bug Fixes

• Set commonJS code as main in package.json (#​2276) (7e636d5)

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