Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 16, 2022· Updated Apr 23, 2025
Regular expression Denial of Service in dialog plugin
CVE-2022-24729
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.
Affected products
2- ckeditor/ckeditor4v5Range: < 4.18.0
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
6- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VR76VBN5GW5QUBJFHVXRX36UZ6YTCMW6/mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOZGMCYDB2OKKULFXZKM6V7JJW4ZZHJP/mitrevendor-advisory
- ckeditor.com/cke4/release/CKEditor-4.18.0mitre
- github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hhmitre
- www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-005mitre
- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.htmlmitre
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