High
Security advisory
The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information published in the public issue, 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16114
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information published in the public issue, 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds.
osv:CVE-2017-16114
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:15.834577284Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/531",
"https://github.com/chjj/marked/issues/937"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 380205,
"published_at": "2018-06-07T02:29:02.77+00:00"
}