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CVE-2023-24038

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1333

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 products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Html-Stripscripts Project Html-Stripscripts: through 1.06

References

• 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
• 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

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