CVE-2022-24729 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0 https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5