CVE-2023-24038

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-1333

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
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
https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
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

Timeline

Published: Jan 21, 2023
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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