CVE-2022-25887: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

August 30, 2022 (updated August 8, 2023)

The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.

References

github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/b4682c12fd30e12e82fa2d9b766de91d7d2cd23c
github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/557
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25887
security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3008102
security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-2957526

Code Behaviors & Features

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