CVE-2021-26271 (GCVE-0-2021-26271)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-26 20:39 – Updated: 2024-08-03 20:19
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
It was possible to execute a ReDoS-type attack inside CKEditor 4 before 4.16 by persuading a victim to paste crafted text into the Styles input of specific dialogs (in the Advanced Tab for Dialogs plugin).
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
4 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/blob/major/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-4.16-with-impr… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html | x_refsource_MISC |
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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