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SCA: security update for marked (GHSA-p9wx-2529-fp83)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427747

Description

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

 - Marked prior to version 0.3.17 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack due
 to catastrophic backtracking in several regular expressions used for parsing HTML tags and markdown links.
 An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted markdown input, such as deeply
 nested or repetitively structured brackets or tag attributes, which cause the parser to hang and lead to a
 Denial of Service. (CVE-2018-25110)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p9wx-2529-fp83

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 427747

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/27/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

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-2018-25110

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

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:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-25110