Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah
GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh · CVE-2022-23514
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Description
Summary
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.
Mitigation
Upgrade to Loofah >= 2.19.1.
Severity
The Loofah maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1).
References
- CWE - CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (4.9)
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
Credit
This vulnerability was responsibly reported by @ooooooo-q (https://github.com/ooooooo-q).
References
- WEB https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23514
- WEB https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/a6e0a1ab90675a17b1b2be189129d94139e4b143
- WEB https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
- PACKAGE https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/CVE-2022-23514.yml
- WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00011.html
- WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00044.html
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