Marked is a markdown parser and compiler. Prior to version 4.0.10, the regular expression `inline.reflinkSearch` may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings and lead to a denial of service (DoS). Anyone who runs untrusted markdown through a vulnerable version of marked and does not use a worker with a time limit may be affected. This issue is patched in version 4.0.10. As a workaround, avoid running untrusted markdown through marked or run marked on a worker thread and set a reasonable time limit to prevent draining resources.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Marked is a markdown parser and compiler. Prior to version 4.0.10, the regular expression     `inline.reflinkSearch` may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings and lead to a denial of     service (DoS). Anyone who runs untrusted markdown through a vulnerable version of marked and does not use     a worker with a time limit may be affected. This issue is patched in version 4.0.10. As a workaround,     avoid running untrusted markdown through marked or run marked on a worker thread and set a reasonable time     limit to prevent draining resources. (CVE-2022-21681)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Marked is a markdown parser and compiler. Prior to version 4.0.10, the regular expression
    `inline.reflinkSearch` may cause catastrophic backtracking against some strings and lead to a denial of
    service (DoS). Anyone who runs untrusted markdown through a vulnerable version of marked and does not use
    a worker with a time limit may be affected. This issue is patched in version 4.0.10. As a workaround,
    avoid running untrusted markdown through marked or run marked on a worker thread and set a reasonable time
    limit to prevent draining resources. (CVE-2022-21681)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-784d729f30 advisory.

    Update to latest version


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
229652	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-21681	Nessus	Misc.	high
411018	SCA: security update for marked (GHSA-5v2h-r2cx-5xgj)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
411018	SCA: security update for marked (GHSA-5v2h-r2cx-5xgj)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
169197	Fedora 36 : gitqlient (2022-784d729f30)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2022-21681

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Tenable Plugins

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