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CVE-2022-23517: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in rails-html-sanitizer

December 13, 2022 (updated November 4, 2025)

Certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer < 1.4.4 use an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w
  • github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer
  • github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/56c61c0cebd1e493e8ad7bca2a0191609a4a6979
  • github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w
  • github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails-html-sanitizer/CVE-2022-23517.yml
  • hackerone.com/reports/1684163
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00045.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23517

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.4.4

Fixed versions

  • 1.4.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.4.4 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Source file

gem/rails-html-sanitizer/CVE-2022-23517.yml

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