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CVE-2022-21670

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-21670 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in markdown-it, a Markdown parser, affecting versions prior to 12.3.2. Specially crafted, long patterns (over 50,000 characters) can significantly degrade parser performance. With a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a low impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 12.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:markdown-it_project:markdown-it:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0219 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: markdown-itFixed in: 12.3.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-6vfc-qv3f-vr6cmedium

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in markdown-it

Jan 12, 2022

References

github.com / markdown-it/markdown-it/commit/ffc49ab46b5b751cd2be0aabb146f2ef84986101
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / markdown-it/markdown-it/security/advisories/GHSA-6vfc-qv3f-vr6c
ExploitThird Party Advisory