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.
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CVE-2022-25887 - High Severity Vulnerability
Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis
Library home page: https://registry.npmjs.org/sanitize-html/-/sanitize-html-1.21.1.tgz
Path to dependency file: /package.json
Path to vulnerable library: /node_modules/sanitize-html/package.json
Dependency Hierarchy: - :x: **sanitize-html-1.21.1.tgz** (Vulnerable Library)
Found in HEAD commit: 4fc776e2b95c8b497f6994cb2165365562ae1f82
Found in base branch: master
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.
Publish Date: 2022-08-30
URL: CVE-2022-25887
Base Score Metrics: - Exploitability Metrics: - Attack Vector: Network - Attack Complexity: Low - Privileges Required: None - User Interaction: None - Scope: Unchanged - Impact Metrics: - Confidentiality Impact: None - Integrity Impact: None - Availability Impact: High
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Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-25887
Release Date: 2022-08-30
Fix Resolution: 2.7.1