CVE-2018-18385

Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop)

published October 16, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
82.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). The loop was caused by the fact that Parser.next_block was not exhausting all the lines in the reader as the while loop expected it would. This was happening because the regular expression that detects any list was not agreeing with the regular expression that detects a specific list type. So the line kept getting pushed back onto the reader, hence causing the loop.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02250 · 82.8th percentile
Published
2018-10-16T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 OCT 15:00Z
    Asciidoctor in versions < 1.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop)
    cvelistv5