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[GHSA-38c4-r59v-3vqw] [email protected]: ReDoS

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
security

Research direction

Locate where the markdown-it dependency is declared and inspect the current lockfile or dependency metadata. Update markdown-it from 14.1.0 to the fixed 14.1.1 release, then run the repository's dependency or test checks to confirm the vulnerable version is no longer installed.

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Description

security vulnerability

Vulnerability Report

CVE Library Installed Fixed
GHSA-38c4-r59v-3vqw markdown-it 14.1.0 14.1.1
Summary

markdown-it has a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

References
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
58
Forks
20
Avg merge
6d 5h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

Getting set up

  • Ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file
  • No pull request template
  • No contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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