CVE-2022-23517 (GCVE-0-2022-23517)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-14 16:10 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in rails-html-sanitizer
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-02 17:07 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/sec… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/com… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023… | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024… |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rails | rails-html-sanitizer |
Affected:
< 1.4.4
|
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