CVE-2026-68749

Estado: ModificadaAlta (8.2)—

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.

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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

Versión: 4.0
Vector: 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Puntuación base: 8.2

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.80%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 55
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access85 %
Impacto principalT1499.004 Application or System Exploitationimpact90 %

Vector CVSS AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N indica explotación remota sin privilegios (T1190). La descripción explícita de agotamiento de CPU via ReDoS en regex de CSS ('work is quadratic', 'saturate the BEAM scheduler pool') es T1499.004 (Application Exhaustion).

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Rrrene — Htmlsanitizeex

CWE

CWE-1333

Referencias

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