CVE-2022-23514

Summary

CVECVE-2022-23514
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-14 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-13 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionLoofah 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-1333

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Loofah Project Loofah All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HackerOne MISC hackerone.com
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah · Advisory · flavorjones/loofah · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3565-1] ruby-loofah security update MISC lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182816 Debian Security Update for ruby-loofah (CVE-2022-23514)
  • 241405 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.13 (RHSA-2023:2097)
  • 6000028 Debian Security Update for ruby-loofah (DLA 3565-1)
  • 960924 Rocky Linux Security Update for Satellite (RLSA-2023:2097)
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