CVE-2022-25887

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Published 2022-08-31 · Modified 2024-04-22

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.7.1+~2.6.2-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.7.1+~2.6.2-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.7.1+~2.6.2-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.7.1+~2.6.2-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
npm	sanitize-html	`<2.7.1`	`2.7.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.