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CVE-2022-23514
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-12-14T14:15:10.477 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:30:16.610

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 products

loofah_project — loofah

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References

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