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rubygemsRubySecRUBY:RAILS-HTML-SANITIZER-2022-23517
HistoryDec 12, 2022 - 9:00 p.m.

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in rails-html-sanitizer

2022-12-1221:00:00
RubySec
github.com
9
rails-html-sanitizer
regex
svg
denial of service
cpu resource consumption
mitigation
upgrade

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

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.

Mitigation

Upgrade to rails-html-sanitizer >= 1.4.4.

Affected configurations

Vulners
Node
rubyrails-html-sanitizerRange1.4.4
VendorProductVersionCPE
rubyrails-html-sanitizer*cpe:2.3:a:ruby:rails-html-sanitizer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H