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Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2023-24038

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity regular-expression denial of service in the libhtml-stripscripts-perl package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 67% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 33.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12libhtml-stripscripts-perl1.06-4DEBIAN-CVE-2023-24038
Debian:13libhtml-stripscripts-perl1.06-4DEBIAN-CVE-2023-24038
Debian:14libhtml-stripscripts-perl1.06-4DEBIAN-CVE-2023-24038
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibhtml-stripscripts-perl1.06-1ubuntu0.22.04.1USN-6100-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibhtml-stripscripts-perl1.06-1ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-24038

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-1333 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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