CVE-2023-24038

high

Description

The HTML-StripScripts module through 1.06 for Perl allows _hss_attval_style ReDoS because of catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with certain style attributes.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5339

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ASDRHN2MLGL2HGBUNDZG4YLUWW6NSUKD/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MYD5PFRUUB4VVY52I5KA3RQ7SQOD7YM/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.html

https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-01-21

Updated: 2025-04-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H