CVE-2022-24729

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/

https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh

https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3