The table extension in GitHub Flavored Markdown before version 0.29.0.gfm.1 takes O(n * n) time to parse certain inputs. An attacker could craft a markdown table which would take an unreasonably long time to process, causing a denial of service. This issue does not affect the upstream cmark project. The issue has been fixed in version 0.29.0.gfm.1.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2020-07-01T23:05:15
Updated: 2024-08-04T08:22:09.078Z
Reserved: 2020-01-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-5238

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Status : Modified
Published: 2020-07-01T23:15:10.443
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:33:44.417
Link: CVE-2020-5238
