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CVE-2023-24824

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2023-03-31 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

cmark-gfm is GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. A polynomial time complexity issue in cmark-gfm may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. This CVE covers quadratic complexity issues when parsing text which leads with either large numbers of `>` or `-` characters. This issue has been addressed in version 0.29.0.gfm.10. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should validate that their input comes from trusted sources.

Affected Platforms

Github Cmark-Gfm

Weakness Type

CWE-400, CWE-407

References