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CVE-2022-23517

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2022-12-14 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. 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. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.4.

Affected Platforms

Rubyonrails Rails Html SanitizersDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-1333

References