Denial Of Service (DoS)

katex is vulnerable to a Denial of Service DoS attack. The vulnerability is due to the inadequate handling of untrusted mathematical expressions containing \def or \newcommand, which leads to a near-infinite loop despite efforts to mitigate it with mechanisms like maxExpand...

CVE-2024-28244

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \def or \newcommand that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. KaTeX supports an option named...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-28244

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \def or \newcommand that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. KaTeX supports an option named...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-28244

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \def or \newcommand that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. KaTeX supports an option named...

CVE-2024-28244 KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by Unicode sub/superscripts

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \def or \newcommand that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. KaTeX supports an option named...

CVE-2024-28244 KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by Unicode sub/superscripts

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \def or \newcommand that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. KaTeX supports an option named...

CVE-2024-28243 KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by \edef

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \edef that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. This can be used as an availability attack, where...

CVE-2024-28243

KaTeX vulnerability (CVE-2024-28243) affects the KaTeX JavaScript library when rendering untrusted math expressions. Malicious input using \edef can cause a near-infinite loop, consuming memory and tying up the main thread, even if maxExpand is set. Impact is availability-related. The public fix ...

CVE-2024-28243

KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \edef that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. This can be used as an availability attack, where...

GHSA-CVR6-37GX-V8WC KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by Unicode sub/superscripts

Impact KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \def or \newcommand that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. This can be used as an availability attack, where e.g. a client rendering another user's KaTe...

KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by Unicode sub/superscripts

Impact KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \def or \newcommand that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. This can be used as an availability attack, where e.g. a client rendering another user's KaTe...

GHSA-64FM-8HW2-V72W KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by `\edef`

Impact KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \edef that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. This can be used as an availability attack, where e.g. a client rendering another user's KaTeX input will b...

KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by `\edef`

Impact KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using \edef that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting maxExpand to avoid such loops. This can be used as an availability attack, where e.g. a client rendering another user's KaTeX input will b...

PT-2024-22359

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: KaTeX versions prior to 0.16.10 Description: KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. Users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using def or ewcommand that causes a near-infini...

GitLab: Clientside resource Exhausting by exploiting gitlab math rendering

Summary based on the documentation gitlab markdown is supporting math expresion rendering using KaTex and able to run subset syntax from LaTex this could be achieved by using 2 ways in the markdown for inline and for multiline. F476662 Steps to reproduce Step-by-step guide to reproduce the issue,...