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SCA: security update for marked (GHSA-6v9c-7cg6-27q7)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 440975

Description

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

 - Marked is a markdown parser and compiler. From 18.0.0 to 18.0.1, a critical Denial of Service (DoS)
 vulnerability exists in marked. By providing a specific 3-byte input sequence a tab, a vertical tab, and a
 newline (\x09\x0b\n)—an unauthenticated attacker can trigger an infinite recursion loop during parsing.
 This leads to unbounded memory allocation, causing the host Node.js application to crash via Memory
 Exhaustion (OOM). This vulnerability is fixed in 18.0.2. (CVE-2026-41680)

Solution

Update the marked library and its related packages to version 18.0.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6v9c-7cg6-27q7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 440975

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/30/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

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-2026-41680

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41680