CVE-2022-25887

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    CVE-2022-25887

    Published: 30 Aug 2022Last Modified: 24 Oct 2026

    Summary: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3008102, https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-2957526, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/25xxx/CVE-2022-25887.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25887, https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/b4682c12fd30e12e82fa2d9b766de91d7d2cd23c, https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/557

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -b4682c12fd30e12e82fa2d9b766de91d7d2cd23c

    Affected versions

    2.5.3
    2.5.2
    2.5.1
    2.5.0

    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
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