[Security] Bump marked from 0.3.5 to 0.3.18

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Bumps marked from 0.3.5 to 0.3.18. This update includes security fixes.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects marked marked is an application that is meant to parse and compile markdown. Due to the way that marked 0.3.5 and earlier parses input, specifically HTML entities, it's possible to bypass marked's content injection protection (sanitize: true) to inject a javascript: URL. This flaw exists because NNanything; gets parsed to what it could and leaves the rest behind, resulting in just anything; being left.

Affected versions: < 0.3.6

Sourced from The Node Security Working Group.

Sanitization bypass using HTML Entities marked is an application that is meant to parse and compile markdown.

Due to the way that marked parses input, specifically HTML entities, it's possible to bypass marked's content injection protection (sanitize: true) to inject a javascript: URL.

This flaw exists because NNanything; gets parsed to what it could and leaves the rest behind, resulting in just anything; being left.

For example:

If a malicious user could provide this input to the application javascript֍ocument;alert(1) resulting in a valid link, that when a user clicked it would execute alert(1).

Affected versions: <=0.3.5

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked Versions of marked prior to 0.6.2 and later than 0.3.14 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service. Email addresses may be evaluated in quadratic time, allowing attackers to potentially crash the node process due to resource exhaustion.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 0.6.2 or later.

Affected versions: < 0.3.18

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects marked marked version 0.3.6 and earlier is vulnerable to an XSS attack in the data: URI parser.

Affected versions: < 0.3.7

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

High severity vulnerability that affects marked The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information published in the public issue, 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds.

Affected versions: <0.3.9

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects marked A Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the file marked.js of the marked npm package (tested on version 0.3.7) allows a remote attacker to overload and crash a server by passing a maliciously crafted string.

Affected versions: < 0.3.9

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

High severity vulnerability that affects marked The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information published in the public issue, 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds.

Affected versions: < 0.3.9

Release notes

Sourced from marked's releases.

Minor fixes and updated docs

• Supported Markdown flavors: CommonMark 0.28 and GitHub Flavored Markdown 0.28
• Updates to our CI pipeline; we're all green! #1098 with the caveat that there is a test that needs to get sorted (help us out #1092)
• Start ordered lists using the initial numbers from markdown lists (#1144)
• Added GitHub Pages site for documentation https://marked.js.org/ (#1138)

Processes and tools

• The elephant in the room: A security vulnerability was discovered and fixed. Please note, if something breaks due to these changes, it was not our intent, and please let us know by submitting a PR or issue to course correct (the nature of the zero-major release and having security as a number one priority) #1083
• The other elephant in the room: We missed publishing a 0.3.16 release to GitHub; so, trying to make up for that a bit.
• Updates to the project documentation and operations, you should check it out, just start with the README and you should be good.
• New release PR template available #1076
• Updates to default PR and Issue templates #1076
• Lint checks + tests + continuous integration using Travis #1020
• Updated testing output #1085 & #1087

Fix capturing parens

Fixes unintended breaking change from v0.3.14

New year, new home

• Marked has a new home under the MarkedJS org! Other advances soon to come.
• Updated minifier.
• Various parser fixes

New Year, new Marked!

• Addresses issue where some users might not have been able to update due to missing use strict #991
• Parser fix #977
• New way to perform tests with options and running individual tests #1002
• Improved test cases
• Improved links

Merry XSSmas

We think with this version we have addressed most, if not all, known security vulnerabilities. If you find more, please let us know.

XSS

Should fix XSS issue discovered.

Commits

• c1e19a9 Merge pull request #1152 from 8fold/release-0.3.18
• 98c9d14 Update home page
• 5d5fa04 0.3.18
• 6661fe5 Merge pull request #1148 from 8fold/styfle-admin
• 5d3d70a Merge pull request #1144 from paulroub/OL_initial_numbers
• 002c565 Merge pull request #1151 from wraith13/master
• 2c20df9 Fix usage links in USING_ADVANCED.md
• f69a82f Remove redundant cast
• f886f40 Merge pull request #1147 from 8fold/update-badges
• 78a0258 styfle to admin
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

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