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CVE-2023-24038

Published: Jan 21, 2023 | Modified: Apr 02, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24038
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Html-stripscripts Html-stripscripts_project * 1.06 (including)
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu bionic *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu focal *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu jammy *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu kinetic *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu lunar *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu trusty *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu upstream *
Libhtml-stripscripts-perl Ubuntu xenial *

References

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