CVE-2023-24038
HighPublic PoC
Published: 21 January 2023
Published
21 January 2023
Modified
02 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0013
32.5th percentile
Risk Priority
15
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2023-24038 is a high-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Html-Stripscripts Project Html-Stripscripts. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 32.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-28102
Vulnerability details
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.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
html-stripscripts project
html-stripscripts
≤ 1.06
debian
debian linux
10.0
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.