CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-31606
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in the sanitize_html function of redcloth gem v4.0.0. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload.
Affected configurations
• promptworks redcloth (>= 4.0.0 <= 4.3.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/e23e/CVE-2023-31606#readme Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/jgarber/redcloth Product
- https://github.com/jgarber/redcloth/issues/73 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00002.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://github.com/e23e/CVE-2023-31606#readme Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/jgarber/redcloth Product
- https://github.com/jgarber/redcloth/issues/73 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00002.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-14 security.gentoo.org