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CVE-2022-23517
high
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.
References
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html
https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/56c61c0cebd1e493e8ad7bca2a0191609a4a6979