CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-45801

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published: Sep 16, 2024 | Modified: Sep 22, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.1
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. It has been discovered that malicious HTML using special nesting techniques can bypass the depth checking added to DOMPurify in recent releases. It was also possible to use Prototype Pollution to weaken the depth check. This renders dompurify unable to avoid cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.5.4 and 3.1.3 of DOMPurify. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness

The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
DompurifyCure53*2.5.4 (excluding)
DompurifyCure533.0.0 (including)3.1.3 (excluding)
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-db-rhel8:3.0.1-3*
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-grafana-dashboard-rhel8:3.0.1-3*
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-operator-bundle:3.0.1-3*
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-ose-oauth-proxy-rhel8:3.0.1-3*
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-reports-rhel8:3.0.1-3*
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-rhel8:3.0.1-3*
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-rhel8-operator:3.0.1-3*
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-storage-rhel8:3.0.1-3*
Cryostat 3 on RHEL 8RedHatcryostat-tech-preview/jfr-datasource-rhel8:3.0.1-3*
NETWORK-OBSERVABILITY-1.7.0-RHEL-9RedHatnetwork-observability/network-observability-cli-rhel9:v1.7.0-67*
NETWORK-OBSERVABILITY-1.7.0-RHEL-9RedHatnetwork-observability/network-observability-console-plugin-rhel9:v1.7.0-67*
NETWORK-OBSERVABILITY-1.7.0-RHEL-9RedHatnetwork-observability/network-observability-ebpf-agent-rhel9:v1.7.0-67*
NETWORK-OBSERVABILITY-1.7.0-RHEL-9RedHatnetwork-observability/network-observability-flowlogs-pipeline-rhel9:v1.7.0-67*
NETWORK-OBSERVABILITY-1.7.0-RHEL-9RedHatnetwork-observability/network-observability-operator-bundle:1.7.0-86*
NETWORK-OBSERVABILITY-1.7.0-RHEL-9RedHatnetwork-observability/network-observability-rhel9-operator:v1.7.0-67*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-cluster-permission-rhel9:v2.11.4-4*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-governance-policy-addon-controller-rhel9:v2.11.4-12*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-governance-policy-framework-addon-rhel9:v2.11.4-13*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9:v2.11.4-4*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-must-gather-rhel9:v2.11.4-12*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-operator-bundle:v2.11.4-47*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-prometheus-config-reloader-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-prometheus-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-search-indexer-rhel9:v2.11.4-10*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-api-rhel9:v2.11.4-12*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:v2.11.4-11*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/acm-volsync-addon-controller-rhel9:v2.11.4-22*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/cert-policy-controller-rhel9:v2.11.4-12*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/cluster-backup-rhel9-operator:v2.11.4-25*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/config-policy-controller-rhel9:v2.11.4-15*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/console-rhel9:v2.11.4-17*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/endpoint-monitoring-rhel9-operator:v2.11.4-6*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/governance-policy-propagator-rhel9:v2.11.4-13*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/grafana-dashboard-loader-rhel9:v2.11.4-6*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/insights-client-rhel9:v2.11.4-10*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/insights-metrics-rhel9:v2.11.4-11*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/klusterlet-addon-controller-rhel9:v2.11.4-6*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/kube-state-metrics-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/memcached-exporter-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/memcached-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/metrics-collector-rhel9:v2.11.4-6*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/multicloud-integrations-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/multiclusterhub-rhel9:v2.11.4-16*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/multicluster-observability-rhel9-operator:v2.11.4-6*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-application-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-channel-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel9:v2.11.4-5*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/node-exporter-rhel9:v2.11.4-4*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/observatorium-rhel9:v2.11.4-5*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/observatorium-rhel9-operator:v2.11.4-6*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/prometheus-alertmanager-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/prometheus-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/rbac-query-proxy-rhel9:v2.11.4-6*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/search-collector-rhel9:v2.11.4-10*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/submariner-addon-rhel9:v2.11.4-17*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/thanos-receive-controller-rhel9:v2.11.4-3*
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9RedHatrhacm2/thanos-rhel9:v2.11.4-5*
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8RedHatautomation-controller-0:4.5.13-1.el8ap*
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9RedHatautomation-controller-0:4.5.13-1.el9ap*
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18RedHatopenshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9:v4.18.0-202504160308.p0.geb6123b.assembly.stream.el9*
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3 ContainersRedHatdevspaces/code-rhel9:3.18-6*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/cluster-logging-operator-bundle:v5.9.7-11*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel9-operator:v5.9.7-6*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/eventrouter-rhel9:v0.4.0-301*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/fluentd-rhel9:v5.9.7-3*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/log-file-metric-exporter-rhel9:v1.1.0-282*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel9:v3.1.1-10*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/logging-view-plugin-rhel9:v5.9.7-5*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/loki-operator-bundle:v5.9.7-16*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/loki-rhel9-operator:v5.9.7-7*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/lokistack-gateway-rhel9:v0.1.0-653*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/opa-openshift-rhel9:v0.1.0-288*
RHOL-5.9-RHEL-9RedHatopenshift-logging/vector-rhel9:v0.34.1-19*
Node-dompurifyUbuntuoracular*
Node-dompurifyUbuntuplucky*

Potential Mitigations

References