CVE-2018-18385
Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop).
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). The loop was caused by the fact that Parser.next_block was not exhausting all the lines in the reader as the while loop expected it would. This was happening because the regular expression that detects any list was not agreeing with the regular expression that detects a specific list type. So the line kept getting pushed back onto the reader, hence causing the loop.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.25% probability · 82th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- Affected
- asciidoctor/asciidoctor
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/2888Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/2888Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.