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CVE-2022-24729

Regular expression Denial of Service in dialog plugin

Published: Mar 16, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-400
6.5MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
2.4%
Top 17.7%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. CKEditor4 prior to version 4.18.0 contains a vulnerability in the `dialog` plugin. The vulnerability allows abuse of a dialog input validator regular expression, which can cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze. A patch is available in version 4.18.0. There are currently no known workarounds.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:RS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-400CWE-1333

Affected Products

ckeditor4ckeditor
LibraryLibrary
Web & CMS Plugins
ckeditorckeditor
LibraryLibrary
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
drupaldrupal
On-premWeb App
Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core
application expressoracle
On-premWeb App
Databases / db-tooling
commerce merchandisingoracle
On-premDatabase
Databases / data-warehouse-analytics
ckeditoross-projectWeb & CMS Pluginsaka ckeditor, ckeditor4, ckeditor5
drupaloss-projectUSWeb & CMS Pluginsaka drupal cms, drupal core
oraclecommercialUSDatabasesaka oracle corp.
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
ckeditor.com
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh
github.com
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
oracle.com
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Timeline

Published
Mar 16, 2022
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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