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CVE-2021-43308

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-43308 describes an exponential Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting the markdown-link-extractor npm package. This flaw allows an attacker to trigger a denial of service by providing specially crafted input to the module's exported function. Rated 7.5 HIGH on CVSS, the vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, leading to high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:markdown-link-extractor_project:markdown-link-extractor:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:markdown-link-extractor_project:markdown-link-extractor:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.05%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0105 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: markdown-link-extractorFixed in: 3.0.2
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: markdown-link-extractorFixed in: 4.0.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-mmh6-m7v9-5956low

Regular expression denial of service in markdown-link-extractor

Jun 3, 2022

References

research.jfrog.com / vulnerabilities/markdown-link-extractor-redos-xray-211350
ExploitThird Party Advisory