CVE-2023-26303 (GCVE-0-2023-26303)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-22 23:44
Modified
2025-03-11 18:22
Severity ?
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
Summary
Denial of service could be caused to markdown-it-py, before v2.2.0, if an attacker was allowed to force null assertions with specially crafted input.
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Executable Books markdown-it-py Version: 0   ≤
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