GHSA-rmmh-p597-ppvv: showdown (CVE-2024-1899)

Showdown vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in link/anchor parsing

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0081 · 56th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 26 Feb 2024, 21:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
showdown	npm	<=2.1.0	No fixed version yet

Identifiers

GHSA-rmmh-p597-ppvv · CVE-2024-1899

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-674 · CWE-777

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.3	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	CNA (tenable)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0081, the 56th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 26 Feb 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

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