CVE-2023-24038: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Html-Stripscripts Project Html-Stripscripts: up to and including 1.06

Published 2023-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.