Denial of service could be caused to the command line interface of markdown-it-py, before v2.2.0, if an attacker was allowed to use invalid UTF-8 characters as input.

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

  - Denial of service could be caused to the command line interface of markdown-it-py, before v2.2.0, if an     attacker was allowed to use invalid UTF-8 characters as input. (CVE-2023-26302)

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:

  - Denial of service could be caused to the command line interface of markdown-it-py, before v2.2.0, if an
    attacker was allowed to use invalid UTF-8 characters as input. (CVE-2023-26302)

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-f970cbb557 advisory.

    Automatic update for python-markdown-it-py-2.2.0-1.fc39.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Wed Mar 15 2023 Karolina Surma <ksurma@redhat.com> - 2.2.0-1
    - Update to 2.2.0, includes the fix for CVE-2023-26302     Resolves: rhbz#2172373 rhbz#2177154
    - Provide extra subpackages: linkify and plugins

    ```

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

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

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-c3fb6d6b8d advisory.

    Update to 2.2.0, includes the fix for CVE-2023-26302

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.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-8ff3ba5fb5 advisory.

    Update to 2.2.0, includes the fix for CVE-2023-26302

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
255711	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-26302	Nessus	Misc.	medium
416574	SCA: security update for markdown-it-py (GHSA-jrwr-5x3p-hvc3)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
416574	SCA: security update for markdown-it-py (GHSA-jrwr-5x3p-hvc3)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
185297	Fedora 39 : python-markdown-it-py (2023-f970cbb557)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
173667	Fedora 37 : python-markdown-it-py (2023-c3fb6d6b8d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
173666	Fedora 38 : python-markdown-it-py (2023-8ff3ba5fb5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2023-26302

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

high

high

medium

medium

medium