GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/12/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w
- Aliases
- Published
- 2022-12-13T17:43:02Z
- Modified
- 2024-02-16T08:20:35.513335Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in rails-html-sanitizer
- Details
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Summary
Certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer
< 1.4.4use an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption.Mitigation
Upgrade to rails-html-sanitizer
>= 1.4.4.Severity
The maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1).
References
- CWE - CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (4.9)
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
Credit
This vulnerability was responsibly reported by @ooooooo-q (https://github.com/ooooooo-q).
- References
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- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23517
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/56c61c0cebd1e493e8ad7bca2a0191609a4a6979
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails-html-sanitizer/CVE-2022-23517.yml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html
Affected packages
RubyGems / rails-html-sanitizer
Package
- Name
- rails-html-sanitizer
- Purl
- pkg:gem/rails-html-sanitizer