CVE-2015-8854

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.044 · 91 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.42% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

11 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The marked package before 0.3.4 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "catastrophic backtracking issue for the em inline rule," aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.8

v2.07.8highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-1333USprimaryCWE-1333USCWE-399US

affected products (11)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 31fstec_bduRU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 32fstec_bduRU
Node.js Foundation Node.js≤ 0.3.4fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 11fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 9fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 10fstec_bduRU
fedoraproject fedora= 31nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 32nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
marked project marked< 0.3.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:marked_project:marked:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm marked< 0.3.4osvUSpkg:npm/marked

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-hjcp-j389-59ffRegular Expression Denial of Service in marked2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
Versions 0.3.3 and earlier of `marked` are affected by a regular expression denial of service ( ReDoS ) vulnerability when passed inputs that reach the `em` inline rule. ## Recommendation Update to version 0.3.4 or later.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-01-23modified 2026-06-17

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references (16)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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