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    CVE-2023-24038

    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.

    Published:Jan 21, 2023
    Last Modified:Apr 2, 2025
    EPS:Jan 21, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.00073
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Html-stripscripts Project
    Product
    Html-stripscripts

    Exploits

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

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup

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    References

    https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MYD5PFRUUB4VVY52I5KA3RQ7SQOD7YM/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ASDRHN2MLGL2HGBUNDZG4YLUWW6NSUKD/
    https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5339
    https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MYD5PFRUUB4VVY52I5KA3RQ7SQOD7YM/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ASDRHN2MLGL2HGBUNDZG4YLUWW6NSUKD/
    https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5339

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High