CVE-2020-26303

insane is a whitelist-oriented HTML sanitizer. Versions 2.6.2 and prior contain one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). As of time of publication, no known patches are available.

• CWE-1333

• https://github.com/bevacqua/insane/issues/19Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-289-redos-insane/Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Oct 26, 2024

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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