CVE-2022-24729

Regular expression Denial of Service in dialog plugin

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 6.5
EPSS: EPSS 2.49 % · percentile 85 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-03-16
Updated: 2025-04-23
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Modified

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

Advisories

DRUPAL-CORE-2022-005 — The Drupal project uses the [CKEditor](https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4) library for WYSIWYG editing. CKEditor has released [a security update that impacts
GHSA-4fc4-4p5g-6w89 — Cross-site Scripting in CKEditor4

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-29580
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-24729

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0810 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-0992 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0362 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-658 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle PeopleSoft · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-654 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle Database Server · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-252 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Drupal · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ckeditor:ckeditor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.0 < 4.18.0
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.0 < 9.2.15
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 9.3.0 < 9.3.8
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:application_express:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 22.1.1
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:commerce_merchandising:11.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.7.0.0 ≤ 8.1.0.0.0
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.1.1.0 ≤ 8.1.2.1
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:8.0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_behavior_detection_platform:8.0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering:8.0.7:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_trade-based_anti_money_laundering:8.0.8:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.58:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.59:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
ckeditor · ckeditor4	affected < 4.18.0

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD