Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Affecting bleach package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDnpm:bleach:20151024
  • published6 Nov 2015
  • disclosed24 Oct 2015
  • creditAdam Baldwin

Introduced: 24 Oct 2015

CVE-2014-8881  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

bleach 3.0 and earlier is vulnerable to Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when certain types of input are passed into the sanitize function.

bleach performs html sanitization, which has definite value from a security perspective. However, it does not control the length of the html it processes, and uses regular expressions to parse it. As a result, it is susceptible to a Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities, rendering an application unavailable if a long or complex input is passed in.

CVSS Scores

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