CVE-2022-23517 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in rails-html-sanitizer
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 expres…
Published: 2022-12-14 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7