CVE-2022-23517
ruby-rails-html-sanitizer - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.5%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2022-23517
To remediate CVE-2022-23517, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.3.0-1+deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.4-1+deb10u2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.3.0-1+deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.4.4 or later
Is CVE-2022-23517 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 1.3.0-1+deb11u1
- from 0, < 1.0.4-1+deb10u2
- from 0, < 1.3.0-1+deb11u1
- from 0, < 1.4.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |