7.5
HIGH
CVE-2022-23517
Ruby on Rails Denial of Service in SVG Attribute Sanitization
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.

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 14, 2022, 5:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 6:48 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2022-23517 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-23517 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Rubyonrails rails_html_sanitizers
2 Rubyonrails html_sanitizer
1 Debian debian_linux
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2022-23517.

URL Resource
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/56c61c0cebd1e493e8ad7bca2a0191609a4a6979 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w Third Party Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163 Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/56c61c0cebd1e493e8ad7bca2a0191609a4a6979 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w Third Party Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163 Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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cve-2020-

Updated: 2 years, 1 month ago
5 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : Jan. 21, 2022, 5:07 a.m. This repo has been linked 2633 different CVEs too.

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2022-23517 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2022-23517 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/56c61c0cebd1e493e8ad7bca2a0191609a4a6979
    Added Reference https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w
    Added Reference https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 01, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Removed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:rails_html_sanitizer_project:rails_html_sanitizer:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* versions up to (excluding) 1.4.4
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails_html_sanitizers:*:*:*:*:*:rails:*:* versions up to (excluding) 1.4.4
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 13, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 16, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/56c61c0cebd1e493e8ad7bca2a0191609a4a6979 No Types Assigned https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/56c61c0cebd1e493e8ad7bca2a0191609a4a6979 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w No Types Assigned https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163 No Types Assigned https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:rails_html_sanitizer_project:rails_html_sanitizer:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* versions up to (excluding) 1.4.4
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

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