CVE detail

CVE-2020-5238 — CVE-2020-5238

Published 2020-07-01 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor github_flavored_markdown_project · Product github_flavored_markdown · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

6.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0157

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

73.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

The table extension in GitHub Flavored Markdown before version 0.29.0.gfm.1 takes O(n * n) time to parse certain inputs. An attacker could craft a markdown table which would take an unreasonably long time to process, causing a denial of service. This issue does not affect the upstream cmark project. The issue has been fixed in version 0.29.0.gfm.1.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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