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CVE-2021-43308

7.5 highEPSS 1.1%

High (7.5) in markdown-link-extractor project markdown-link-extractor. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in markdown-link-extractor 3.0.2, 4.0.1.

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the markdown-link-extractor npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the module's exported function

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-1333
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-mmh6-m7v9-5956npmmarkdown-link-extractor<3.0.23.0.2
GHSA-mmh6-m7v9-5956npmmarkdown-link-extractor>=4.0.0 <4.0.14.0.1

References

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