PT-2022-24031

CVE-2022-37620

Published

2022-10-31

Updated

2026-06-04

Description by

CVSS 4.0

8.7

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions kangax html-minifier version 4.0.0

Description A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in the candidate variable in htmlminifier.js. This issue can cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For kangax html-minifier version 4.0.0, consider disabling the candidate variable in htmlminifier.js as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Secdevlpr26

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Related identifiers

CVE-2022-37620