CVE-2022-37620

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in kangax html-minifier 4.0.0 because of the reCustomIgnore regular expression.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L1338	Product
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L294	Product
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/issues/1135	Issue Tracking Mitigation Third Party Advisory
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTMLMINIFIER-3091181
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L1338	Product
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L294	Product
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/issues/1135	Issue Tracking Mitigation Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:terser:html-minifier-terser:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:kangax:html-minifier:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2022-10-31 12:15

Updated : 2026-06-17 04:55

NVD link : CVE-2022-37620

Mitre link : CVE-2022-37620

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-37620

JSON object : View

Products Affected

terser

html-minifier-terser

kangax

html-minifier

CWE

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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