Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8854

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

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)."
Published Date January 23, 2017
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory