CVE-2022-37620 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in kangax html-minifier 4.0.0 via the candidate variable in htmlminifier.js.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Kangax	Html-minifier
Terser	Html-minifier-terser

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:terser:html-minifier-terser:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:kangax:html-minifier:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L1338
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L294
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/issues/1135

History

Tue, 06 May 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 02 May 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Kangax Kangax html-minifier Terser Terser html-minifier-terser
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:html-minifier_project:html-minifier:4.0.0:::::::*	cpe:2.3:a:kangax:html-minifier::::::node.js::* cpe:2.3:a:terser:html-minifier-terser::::::node.js::*
Vendors & Products	Html-minifier Project Html-minifier Project html-minifier	Kangax Kangax html-minifier Terser Terser html-minifier-terser

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-31T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-06T15:51:17.033Z

Reserved: 2022-08-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-37620

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T10:29:21.041Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-31T12:15:10.137

Modified: 2025-05-06T16:15:23.350

Link: CVE-2022-37620

Redhat

No data.

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