Affected versions of marked are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service.

The amplification in this vulnerability is significant, with 1,000 characters resulting in the event loop being blocked for around 6 seconds.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.3.9 or later.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Marked module before 0.3.1 for Node.js allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) gfm codeblocks (language) or (2) javascript url's.

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in marked 0.3.2 and earlier for Node.js allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a vbscript tag in a link.

marked version 0.3.6 and earlier is vulnerable to an XSS attack in the data: URI parser.

Marked is an open-source markdown parser and compiler (npm package "marked"). In marked from version 1.1.1 and before version 2.0.0, there is a Regular expression Denial of Service vulnerability. This vulnerability can affect anyone who runs user generated code through marked. This vulnerability is fixed in version 2.0.0.