5.1

CVE-2024-44337: fq

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-44337DEBIAN-CVE-2024-44337CGA-2gqq-j5vc-rjg3
Published 15-10-2024Last modified 14-11-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-44337 is a medium (CVSS 5.1) vulnerability in fq. EPSS estimates a 0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.1, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.1/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.50%
0%100%
Low · -0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14599-1CGA-QWXX-V2R2-MHXP

Timeline

  1. 15-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-11-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The package `github.com/gomarkdown/markdown` is a Go library for parsing Markdown text and rendering as HTML. Prior to pseudoversion `v0.0.0-20240729232818-a2a9c4f`, which corresponds with commit `a2a9c4f76ef5a5c32108e36f7c47f8d310322252`, there was a logical problem in the paragraph function of the parser/block.go file, which allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition by providing a tailor-made input that caused an infinite loop, causing the program to hang and consume resources indefinitely. Submit `a2a9c4f76ef5a5c32108e36f7c47f8d310322252` contains fixes to this problem.

CVSS metrics

8 scores · 7 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.50%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

43%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Decrease -0.01 pp

From 0.51% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard2 products
  • fq< 0.13.0-r0
  • kube-metrics-adapter< 0.2.3-r2
Wolfi2 products
  • fq< 0.13.0-r0
  • kube-metrics-adapter< 0.2.3-r2
Debian1 product
  • golang-github-gomarkdown-markdownAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.0~git20260725.8435af3-1
Github.com/gomarkdown1 product
  • markdown< 0.0.0-20240729212818-a2a9c4f76ef5
Opensuse1 product
  • fq&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 0.14.0-1.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • golang-github-gomarkdown-markdownAll versions (No fix recorded)

6 vendors · 8 products

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