| 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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1015217 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ckeditor (PTS) | buster | 4.11.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 4.16.0+dfsg-2 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm, sid | 4.19.1+dfsg-1 | fixed | |
| ckeditor3 (PTS) | buster | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, sid, bullseye | 3.6.6.1+dfsg-7 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ckeditor | source | (unstable) | 4.19.0+dfsg-1 | |||
| ckeditor3 | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| ckeditor3 | source | buster | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| ckeditor3 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 1015217 |
[bullseye] - ckeditor <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - ckeditor3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - ckeditor3 <end-of-life> (No longer supported in LTS)
[stretch] - ckeditor3 <end-of-life> (EOL'd for stretch)
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-f6rf-9m92-x2hh