Vulnerability in Apostrophecms Sanitize-html

CVE-2022-25887

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.

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.011 (63.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-25887?
CVE-2022-25887 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apostrophecms Sanitize-html, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-08-30.
How severe is CVE-2022-25887?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.