Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in rails-html-sanitizer
## Summary
Certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer `< 1.4.4` use an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption.
## Mitigation
Upgrade to rails-html-sanitizer `>= 1.4.4`.
## Severity
The maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1)
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
## References
- CWE - CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (4.9)
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html
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https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
## Credit
This vulnerability was responsibly reported by @ooooooo-q (
https://github.com/ooooooo-q)