Quadratic regex backtracking in the html_sanitize_ex CSS scrubber allows CPU-exhaustion denial of service
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ssvc Attendcvss 8.2epss 0.4%
da publicação à arma7 dias
Publicada no NVD6 de ago.
1ª PoC+7d
probabilidade de exploração
0.4%top 63% das CVEs
exploração observada
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1 exploit(s) público(s)
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability in the CSS scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust server CPU via a long CSS declaration in sanitized HTML. The declaration regex in HtmlSanitizeEx.Scrubber.CSS.scrub/1 matches the property name with an unbounded greedy [-\w]+ followed by a mandatory :, so a long run of word characters not followed by a colon makes the engine give back one character at a time and retry the colon at every start offset. The work is quadratic in the length of the run, and no length cap is applied to the CSS handed to the scrubber. An 80 KB <style> body costs roughly 2.4 seconds of scheduler time, so a few concurrent requests saturate the BEAM scheduler pool and make the application unresponsive.
The impact is CPU exhaustion only. Nothing is read, modified or disclosed.
This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.4.5 and from 1.5.0-rc.0 before 1.5.3.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Produtos afetados
rrrene · html_sanitize_exPoCs públicas encontradas — 1
githubgithub.com/Hunt-Benito/the-sanitizer-is-the-weapon-cve-2026-68749-cve-2026-68750-quadratic-dos-in-elixir-html-sanitize-ex★ 0⚠ Recursos públicos, para você avaliar a exposição de sistemas que controla ou está autorizado a testar. Teste apenas com autorização.
Referências
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-68749.htmlhttps://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/4f4bd9eb254881462c0461fbab74b29188c2c133https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/b673df33ddf982c8bd0a8bd6348aa247080b3b14https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-4cx2-987x-rr2xhttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-68749