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CVE-2015-8854

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

The marked package before 0.3.4 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "catastrophic backtracking issue for the em inline rule," aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• markedjs marked: before 0.3.4 — fixed in 0.3.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: markedjs marked 0.3.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S/
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S/
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

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