7.8

CVE-2015-8854: fedoraproject fedora

CVSS: 7.8v2.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2015-8854DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8854GHSA-hjcp-j389-59ff
Published 23-01-2017Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-8854 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 4.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.42%
0%100%
Low · +0.08 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 23-01-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.42%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.08 pp

From 4.33% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
4.42%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • node-marked< 0.3.6+dfsg-1
Fedoraproject1 product
Marked_project1 product
Npm1 product
  • marked< 0.3.4
Ubuntu1 product
  • node-markedAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 5 products

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