CKEditor 5 provides a WYSIWYG editing solution. This CVE affects the following npm packages: ckeditor5-engine, ckeditor5-font, ckeditor5-image, ckeditor5-list, ckeditor5-markdown-gfm, ckeditor5-media-embed, ckeditor5-paste-from-office, and ckeditor5-widget. Following an internal audit, a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability has been discovered in multiple CKEditor 5 packages. The vulnerability allowed to abuse particular regular expressions, which could cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze. It affects all users using the CKEditor 5 packages listed above at version <= 26.0.0. The problem has been recognized and patched. The fix will be available in version 27.0.0.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2021-04-29T00:20:19

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:09:15.938Z

Reserved: 2020-12-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-21391

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-04-29T01:15:07.883

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:30:00.240

Link: CVE-2021-21391

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