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CVE-2023-31606

7.5 highEPSS 1.5%

High (7.5) in promptworks redcloth. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in RedCloth 4.3.3.

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue was discovered in the sanitize_html function of redcloth gem v4.0.0. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-1333
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-qcm3-vfq5-wfr2RubyGemsRedCloth<4.3.34.3.3

References

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