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CVE-2022-24729

Regular expression Denial of Service in dialog plugin

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 16, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:32 AM UTC
10 products affected across 4 vendorsFedoraDrupalPeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ckeditor· Ckeditordrupal
95%
4.0 ≤ v < 4.18.0
Affected range stops below 4.18.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Drupal· Drupaldrupal
95%
8.0.0 ≤ v < 9.2.159.3.0 ≤ v < 9.3.8
Affected range stops below 9.2.15, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 9.3.8, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
3637
Application Express· Oracledrupal
95%
v < 22.1.1
Affected range stops below 22.1.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Commerce Merchandising· Oracledrupal
95%
11.3.2
Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure· Oracledrupal
95%
8.0.7.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.1.0.0.08.1.1.08.1.2.08.1.2.1
Financial Services Behavior Detection Platform· Oracledrupal
95%
8.1.1.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.1.2.18.0.7.08.0.8.0
Financial Services Trade Based Anti Money Laundering· Oracledrupal
95%
8.0.78.0.8
PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools· Oracledrupal
95%
8.588.59
CKEDITOR4· Ckeditordrupal
60%
v < 4.18.0
Affected range stops below 4.18.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (6)

Release NotesVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
Third Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh
Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/
PatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-1333

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