Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah
Summary
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23514 ruby-loofah Fixed in: 2.7.0+dfsg-1+deb11u1
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- web hackerone.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web lists.debian.org