CVE-2023-24038 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The HTML-StripScripts module through 1.06 for Perl allows _hss_attval_style ReDoS because of catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with certain style attributes.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00073.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Html-stripscripts Project	Html-stripscripts

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:html-stripscripts_project:html-stripscripts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MYD5PFRUUB4VVY52I5KA3RQ7SQOD7YM/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ASDRHN2MLGL2HGBUNDZG4YLUWW6NSUKD/
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5339

History

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-1333
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-02T15:58:39.418Z

Reserved: 2023-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-24038

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:49:08.988Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-21T01:15:15.183

Modified: 2025-04-02T16:15:32.840

Link: CVE-2023-24038

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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