CVE-2022-25887

MEDIUM

sanitize-html < 2.7.1 - Regular Expression Denial of Service via HTML Comment Removal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-2957526
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3008102
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/557

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0111
EPSS Percentile 61.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-1333
Status published
Products (2)
apostrophecms/sanitize-html < 2.7.1
npm/sanitize-html 0 - 2.7.1npm
Published Aug 30, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026