CVE-2026-2327

medium

Description

Versions of the package markdown-it from 13.0.0 and before 14.1.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to the use of the regex /\*+$/ in the linkify function. An attacker can supply a long sequence of * characters followed by a non-matching character, which triggers excessive backtracking and may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MARKDOWNIT-10666750

https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/commit/4b4bbcae5e0990a5b172378e507b33a59012ed26

https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/14.1.0/lib/rules_inline/linkify.mjs%23L33

https://gist.github.com/ltduc147/c9abecae1b291ede4f692f2ab988c917

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-12

Updated: 2026-02-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium