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CVE-2018-18385

7.5 highEPSS 2.2%

Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). The loop was caused by the fact that Parser.next_block was not exhausting all the lines in the reader as the while loop expected it would. This was happening because the regular expression that detects any list was not agreeing with the regular expression that detects a specific list type. So the line kept getting pushed back onto the reader, hence causing the loop.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-835
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-qc9p-mjxm-j2wjRubyGemsasciidoctor<1.5.81.5.8

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