Name | CVE-2022-24729 |
Description | CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. CKEditor4 prior to version 4.18.0 contains a vulnerability in the `dialog` plugin. The vulnerability allows abuse of a dialog input validator regular expression, which can cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze. A patch is available in version 4.18.0. There are currently no known workarounds. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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ckeditor (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.4.4+dfsg1-3+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.5.7+dfsg-2+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.5.7+dfsg-2+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 4.11.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 4.16.0+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 4.19.1+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.22.1+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
ckeditor3 (PTS) | stretch | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| buster | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-3 | fixed |
| sid, bullseye, trixie, bookworm | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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ckeditor | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
ckeditor | source | (unstable) | 4.19.0+dfsg-1 | | | |
ckeditor3 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
[bullseye] - ckeditor <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - ckeditor <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
- ckeditor3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/8cff1e5aee3d766068792a374ba6b54a5cb92e2d (4.18.0)
[jessie] - ckeditor <postponed> (Minor issue)