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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2021-21254 EUVD-2021-0505GHSA-hgmg-hhc8-g5wr

Regular expression Denial of Service in Markdown plugin

Published Jan 29, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

CKEditor 5 is an open source rich text editor framework with a modular architecture. The CKEditor 5 Markdown plugin (@ckeditor/ckeditor5-markdown-gfm) before version 25.0.0 has a regex denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability. The vulnerability allowed to abuse link recognition regular expression, which could cause a significant performance drop resulting in browser tab freeze. It affects all users using CKEditor 5 Markdown plugin at version <= 24.0.0. The problem has been recognized and patched. The fix will be available in version 25.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ckeditor ckeditor5 < 25.0.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @ckeditor/ckeditor5-markdown-gfm < 25.0.0 25.0.0 GHSA-hgmg-hhc8-g5wr

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