7.5
HIGH
CVE-2022-24729
CKEditor4 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

March 16, 2022, 5:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 3:44 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-24729 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 Oracle peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools
2 Oracle financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure
3 Oracle application_express
4 Oracle financial_services_behavior_detection_platform
5 Oracle financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering
6 Oracle commerce_merchandising
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Drupal drupal
1 Ckeditor ckeditor

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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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2022-24729 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2022-24729 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 [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

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

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/
    Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
  • Reanalysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 30, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CWE NIST NVD-CWE-Other
    Added CWE NIST CWE-1333
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 08, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 14, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html No Types Assigned https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:application_express:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 22.1.1 *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:commerce_merchandising:11.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 8.0.7.0.0 up to (including) 8.1.0.0.0 *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:8.0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:8.0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 8.1.1.0 up to (including) 8.1.2.1 *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering:8.0.7:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering:8.0.8:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.58:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.59:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 24, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 25, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 28, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    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://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0 No Types Assigned https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh No Types Assigned https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005 No Types Assigned https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST NVD-CWE-Other
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:ckeditor:ckeditor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 4.0 up to (excluding) 4.18.0
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 8.0.0 up to (excluding) 9.2.15 *cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 9.3.0 up to (excluding) 9.3.8
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 16, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005 [No Types Assigned]
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

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2022-24729 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2022-24729 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

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

0.59 }} 0.09%

score

0.78666

percentile

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