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CVE-2022-24729

Published: Mar 16, 2022

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
ckeditor	ckeditor4	affected `< 4.18.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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

FEDORA-2022-b61dfd219b

vendor-advisory

FEDORA-2022-4c634ee466

vendor-advisory

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