CVE-2015-8854

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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)."

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-1333

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSSThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSSThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jan 23, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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