CVE-2022-25887

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.016 · 75 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.55% (75th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

15 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5.3–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · report@snyk.ioexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-1333USprimaryCWE-1333US

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

HCL BigFixall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:hcltech:bigfix:-
HCL BigFix < 10.0.8 all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:hcltech:bigfix:10.0.8
HCL BigFix < 9.5.21all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:hcltech:bigfix:9.5.21
IBM Business Automation Workflow V19.0.0.3 traditionalall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:business_automation_workflow:v19.0.0.3_traditional
IBM Business Automation Workflow V20.0.0.1 traditionalall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:business_automation_workflow:v20.0.0.1_traditional
IBM Business Automation Workflow V20.0.0.2 containersall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:business_automation_workflow:v20.0.0.2_containers
IBM Business Automation Workflow V20.0.0.2 traditionalall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:business_automation_workflow:v20.0.0.2_traditional
IBM Business Automation Workflow V21.0.2 containersall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:business_automation_workflow:v21.0.2_containers
IBM Business Automation Workflow V21.0.2 traditionalall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:business_automation_workflow:v21.0.2_traditional
IBM Business Automation Workflow V21.0.3 containersall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:business_automation_workflow:v21.0.3_containers
IBM Business Automation Workflow V21.0.3.1 traditionalall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:business_automation_workflow:v21.0.3.1_traditional
IBM License Metric Toolall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:license_metric_tool:-
n/a sanitize-htmlunspecified → 2.7.1enisa_euvdEU
apostrophecms sanitize-html< 2.7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apostrophecms:sanitize-html:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm sanitize-html< 2.7.1osvUSpkg:npm/sanitize-html

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-2368HCL BigFix: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-12-19csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in HCL BigFix ausnutzen, um die Verfügbarkeit, die Vertraulichkeit und die Integrität zu gefährden.
WID-SEC-W-2023-0272IBM Business Automation Workflow: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2023-02-02csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in IBM Business Automation Workflow ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
GHSA-cgfm-xwp7-2cvrSanitize-html Vulnerable To REDoS Attacks2022-08-31ghsa · osvUS
The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-08-30modified 2026-06-17

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references (16)

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