UBUNTU-CVE-2022-25887

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-25887

    Published: 30 Aug 2022Last Modified: 17 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-25887
    Aliases:
    USN-7464-1

    Summary:

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-25887, https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-2957526, https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3008102, https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/557, https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/b4682c12fd30e12e82fa2d9b766de91d7d2cd23c, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-25887, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7464-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-sanitize-html

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-sanitize-html?arch=source&distro=jammy

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.6.1-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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