CVE-2022-23514 (GCVE-0-2022-23514)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-14 13:19
Modified
2025-11-03 21:45
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah < 2.19.1 contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption. This issue is patched in version 2.19.1.
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flavorjones | loofah |
Version: < 2.19.1 |
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