VDB
CVE-2018-25110
CVE-2018-25110
PUBLISHED
Marked prior to version 0.3.17 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack due to catastrophic backtracking in several regular expressions used for parsing HTML tags and markdown links. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted markdown input, such as deeply nested or repetitively structured brackets or tag attributes, which cause the parser to hang and lead to a Denial of Service.
EPSS 0.77% · 74.0th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.77%
74.0th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | node-marked | 0, 0.3.6+dfsg-1, 0.3.9+dfsg-1 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | node-marked | 0, * |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- May 23, 2025 CVE Published
- May 24, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jun 4, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jun 15, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jun 26, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jul 8, 2025 EPSS Score
- Jul 19, 2025 EPSS Score
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- Aug 21, 2025 EPSS Score
- Sep 1, 2025 EPSS Score
- Sep 12, 2025 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-25110 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-25110 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/issues/1070 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/pull/1083 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/Checkmarx/Vulnerabilities-Proofs-of-Concept/tree/main/2018/CVE-2018-25110 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/markedjs/marked/commit/20bfc106013ed45713a21672ad4a34df94dcd485 third-party-advisory