Impact

bleach.clean behavior parsing style attributes could result in a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

Calls to bleach.clean with an allowed tag with an allowed style attribute are vulnerable to ReDoS. For example, bleach.clean(..., attributes={'a': ['style']}).

Patches

3.1.4

Workarounds

do not whitelist the style attribute in bleach.clean calls

limit input string length

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=1623633 https://www.regular-expressions.info/redos.html https://blog.r2c.dev/posts/finding-python-redos-bugs-at-scale-using-dlint-and-r2c/ https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6817

Credits

Reported by schwag09 of r2c

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