Fedora 37 update for perl-HTML-StripScripts



Published: 2023-08-20
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2023-24038
CWE-ID CWE-185
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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perl-HTML-StripScripts
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Vendor Fedoraproject

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Incorrect Regular Expression

EUVDB-ID: #VU72015

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-24038

CWE-ID: CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input in _hss_attval_style. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

Fedora: 37

perl-HTML-StripScripts: before 1.06-22.fc37

CPE2.3 External links

http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-6f16e3bcee


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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