CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2022-24729
High (7.5). EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ckeditor4 4.18.0.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-1333, CWE-400
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ckeditor:ckeditor
- drupal:drupal
- fedoraproject:fedora
- oracle:application_express
- oracle:commerce_merchandising
- oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure
- oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform
- oracle:financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering
- oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89 | npm | ckeditor4 | <4.18.0 | 4.18.0 |
References
- https://ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0
- https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/
- https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005