CVE-2022-23514

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.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh	Third Party Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163	Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00011.html

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:loofah_project:loofah:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

History

19 Dec 2022, 17:03

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2022-12-14 14:15

Updated : 2024-02-04 23:14

NVD link : CVE-2022-23514

Mitre link : CVE-2022-23514

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-23514

JSON object : View

Products Affected

loofah_project

loofah

CWE

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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