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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2022-25887)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7464-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook did not properly parse HTML comments under certain circumstances.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2022-25887)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
258231	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-25887	Nessus	Misc.	high
234890	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 : Jupyter Notebook vulnerability (USN-7464-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
421787	SCA: security update for sanitize-html (GHSA-cgfm-xwp7-2cvr)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
421787	SCA: security update for sanitize-html (GHSA-cgfm-xwp7-2cvr)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high

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