6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.1%
katex is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The vulnerability is due to the inadequate handling of untrusted mathematical expressions containing \de
f or \newcommand
, which leads to a near-infinite loop despite efforts to mitigate it with mechanisms like maxExpand.
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.1%