Inefficient regular expression complexity in Redcloth - CVE-2023-31606
Published: September 13, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU80753
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31606
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Promptworks
Affected software:
Redcloth
Redcloth
Detailed vulnerability 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 with a regular expressions within the sanitize_html() function in lib/redcloth/formatters/html.rb. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2023-31606
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.