What is GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m?

GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. kangax html-minifier REDoS vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m cover?

GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2022-37620. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m?

GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m?

GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m affects 1 product, including: npm/html-minifier:\u003c= 4.0.0.

GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5mHighCVSS 7.5

kangax html-minifier REDoS vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 31, 2022

Last Modified

June 11, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-37620 →

📋 Description

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

🎯 Affected products1

npm/html-minifier:<= 4.0.0

🔗 References (6)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37620
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/issues/1135
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L1338
https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier/blob/51ce10f4daedb1de483ffbcccecc41be1c873da2/src/htmlminifier.js#L294
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTMLMINIFIER-3091181
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pfq8-rq6v-vf5m