{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8854","details":"The marked package before 0.3.4 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a \"catastrophic backtracking issue for the em inline rule,\" aka a \"regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).\"","modified":"2025-10-24T04:45:31Z","published":"2017-01-23T21:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-8854"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8854"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/marked_redos"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/chjj/marked/issues/497"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8854"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"node-marked","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-marked@0.3.2+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.3.2+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"0.3.2+dfsg-1","binary_name":"libjs-marked"},{"binary_version":"0.3.2+dfsg-1","binary_name":"node-marked"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8854.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}