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Alpine: libcmark, multiple cmark packages: security update to 0.30.3-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 403862

Description

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

 - cmark-gfm is GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. Versions
 prior to 0.29.0.gfm.7 contain a polynomial time complexity issue in handle_close_bracket that may lead to
 unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent denial of service. This vulnerability has been patched in
 0.29.0.gfm.7. (CVE-2023-22486)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-22486

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403862

Version: Revision 1.29

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22486

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22486