CVE-2022-25887
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 30, 2022 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:34 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSanitize Html
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v < 2.7.1
Affected range stops below 2.7.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/b4682c12fd30e12e82fa2d9b766de91d7d2cd23cx_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/557x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3008102x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-2957526CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-1333
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