CVE-2022-23514

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
flavorjonesloofah< 2.19.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1333: CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References