CVE-2024-28244 (GCVE-0-2024-28244)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-25 19:45
Modified
2024-08-02 00:48
CWE
Summary
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 maxExpand which aims to prevent infinitely recursive macros from consuming all available memory and/or triggering a stack overflow error. Unfortunately, support for "Unicode (sub|super)script characters" allows an attacker to bypass this limit. Each sub/superscript group instantiated a separate Parser with its own limit on macro executions, without inheriting the current count of macro executions from its parent. This has been corrected in KaTeX v0.16.10.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
KaTeX KaTeX Version: >= 0.15.4, < 0.16.10
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