6.5

CVE-2022-24729: ckeditor ckeditor4 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumPublished
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24729DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24729
Published 16-03-2022Last modified 23-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-24729 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ckeditor ckeditor4. EPSS estimates a 2.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
2.49%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 16-03-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

CKEditor4 is an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor. CKEditor4 prior to version 4.18.0 contains a vulnerability in the `dialog` plugin. The vulnerability allows abuse of a dialog input validator regular expression, which can cause a significant performance drop resulting in a browser tab freeze. A patch is available in version 4.18.0. There are currently no known workarounds.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.49%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.49% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.49%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu3 products
  • ckeditor3All versions (No fix recorded)
  • ldap-account-managerAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • request-tracker4All versions (No fix recorded)
Ckeditor1 product
Debian1 product
  • ckeditor< 4.19.0+dfsg-1

3 vendors · 5 products

References

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