CVE-2023-24038

Published: Jan 21, 2023Modified: Jun 17, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (2)

Products: Html Stripscripts Project: Html Stripscripts · Debian: Debian Linux

Html Stripscripts Project

1 product

Html Stripscripts

Debian

1 product

Debian Linux

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Html Stripscripts Project Html Stripscripts	Up to 1.06

Configuration B

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Debian Debian Linux	Version 10.0

Related CWEs

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

References (10)

https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MYD5PFRUUB4VVY52I5KA3RQ7SQOD7YM/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ASDRHN2MLGL2HGBUNDZG4YLUWW6NSUKD/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5339

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3