7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2022-23517

Published: 14/12/2022 Updated: 01/02/2024
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer < 1.4.4 use 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. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.4.

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rubyonrails rails html sanitizers

debian debian linux 10.0

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Important: Satellite 613 Release Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Red Hat Insights patch analysis Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory View affected systems Topic An update is now available for Red Hat Satellite 613 The release contains anew version of Satellite and important security fixes ...
Debian Bug report logs - #1027153 ruby-rails-html-sanitizer: CVE-2022-23517 CVE-2022-23518 CVE-2022-23519 CVE-2022-23520 Package: src:ruby-rails-html-sanitizer; Maintainer for src:ruby-rails-html-sanitizer is Debian Ruby Team &lt;pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg&gt;; Reported by: Moritz Mühlenhoff &lt;jmm@inutil ...
DescriptionThe MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as: rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications Certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer &lt; 144 use an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes This m ...