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CVE-2022-24729GHSA-4FC4-4P5G-6W89BIT-DRUPAL-2022-24728BIT-DRUPAL-2022-24729DRUPAL-CORE-2022-005GHSA-F6RF-9M92-X2HH

Regular expression Denial of Service in dialog plugin

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.18.0, 9.2.15, 9.3.8
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • ckeditor ckeditor4

    fixed in 4.18.0

  • ckeditor4npm

    fixed in 4.18.0

  • drupal/corePackagist

    From 8.0.0 · fixed in 9.2.15; From 9.3.0 · fixed in 9.3.8

References 6

ckeditor.com

GitHub · ckeditor/ckeditor4

oracle.com

drupal.org

lists.fedoraproject.org

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