Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:29151Regular Expression Denial Of Service (ReDoS)
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
ckeditor4 is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. An insecure usage of the regular expression allows an attacker to crash the user’s browser through excessive memory consumption by tricking a user into pasting a malicious text into nto the editor, and then press Enter or Space (in the Autolink plugin).
References
ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-4.16-with-improved-image-pasting-High-Contrast-support-and-a-new-color-API/#security-comes-first
github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/blob/major/CHANGES.md#ckeditor-416
www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
Related
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P