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FKIE_CVE-2022-37620

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-10-31 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:55
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in kangax html-minifier 4.0.0 because of the reCustomIgnore regular expression.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L1338Product
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L294Product
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/issues/1135Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTMLMINIFIER-3091181
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L1338Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L294Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/issues/1135Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
terser html-minifier-terser *
kangax html-minifier *
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