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high 7.5

CVE-2019-12041 json

Regular Expression Denial of Service in remarkable

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-q22g-8fr4-qpj4 , EUVD-2019-0556

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

lib/common/html_re.js in remarkable 1.7.1 allows Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via a CDATA section.

Patch / fix

  • npm remarkable 1.7.2

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Exploit prediction

1.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable/issues/331 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm remarkable
<1.7.2
1.7.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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