Security Bulletin: IBM API Connect is impacted by vulnerabilities in Drupal CKEditor (CVE-2021-26271, CVE-2021-26272)

2021-08-2517:44:45

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api connect

drupal ckeditor

cve-2021-26271

cve-2021-26272

denial of service

vulnerabilities

updates

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

53.2%

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Summary

IBM API Connect has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-26271
**DESCRIPTION:**CKEditor is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the Advanced Tab for Dialogs plugin. By persuading a victim to paste specially-crafted text into the Styles input of specific dialogs, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195665 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-26272
**DESCRIPTION:**CKEditor is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw in the Autolink plugin. By persuading a victim to paste specially-crafted URL-like text, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195667 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)