In short
- CVE-2023-39663 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting mathjax (mathjax), mathjax.
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.82%, higher than 57.4% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| mathjax | ≤ 2.7.9
| No fix yet |
| mathjax npm | ≤ 2.7.9
| No fix yet |
Description
Mathjax up to v2.7.9 was discovered to contain two Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities in MathJax.js via the components pattern and markdownPattern. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because the regular expressions are not applied to user input; thus, there is no risk.
NVD description
Mathjax up to v2.7.9 was discovered to contain two Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities in MathJax.js via the components pattern and markdownPattern. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because the regular expressions are not applied to user input; thus, there is no risk.
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