CVE-2022-24729

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-400: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
• https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh
• 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/

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
• https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh
• 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/

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