CVE-2022-23514

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23514
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-23514.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-23514
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2022-12-14T13:19:25.943Z
Modified
2025-12-04T10:11:24.790215Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23514.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/flavorjones/loofah

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
3f8806300089135f7832a59aa2689a6674d37897

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.2.0
v0.2.1
v0.2.2
v0.3.0
v0.3.1
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.4.3
v0.4.4
v0.4.5
v0.4.6
v0.4.7

v1.*

v1.0.0
v1.0.0.beta.1
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.2.1

v2.*

v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.0.2
v2.0.3
v2.1.0
v2.1.0.rc1
v2.1.0.rc2
v2.1.1
v2.10.0
v2.11.0
v2.12.0
v2.13.0
v2.14.0
v2.15.0
v2.16.0
v2.17.0
v2.18.0
v2.19.0
v2.2.0
v2.2.1
v2.2.2
v2.3.0
v2.3.1
v2.4.0
v2.5.0
v2.6.0
v2.7.0
v2.8.0
v2.9.0
v2.9.1