{"id":"CVE-2023-24038","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-24038","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:05:17.455Z","title":"The HTML-StripScripts module through 1.06 for Perl allows _hss_attval_style ReDoS because of catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with certain style attributes.","description":"The HTML-StripScripts module through 1.06 for Perl allows _hss_attval_style ReDoS because of catastrophic backtracking for HTML content with certain style attributes.","published":"2023-01-21T01:15:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:38:32.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-1333"],"affected":["html-stripscripts project/html-stripscripts","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01116,"percentile":0.65858,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.12%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MYD5PFRUUB4VVY52I5KA3RQ7SQOD7YM/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ASDRHN2MLGL2HGBUNDZG4YLUWW6NSUKD/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5339","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/clintongormley/perl-html-stripscripts/issues/3","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00036.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MYD5PFRUUB4VVY52I5KA3RQ7SQOD7YM/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ASDRHN2MLGL2HGBUNDZG4YLUWW6NSUKD/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5339","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24038","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}