7.5
High
CVE-2022-23517 rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications
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.
Affected products and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| rails-html-sanitizer 1.4 | earliest → < 1.4.4 | 1.4.4 |
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CVE-2024-53987
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CVE-2024-53986
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2.3
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