GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh
- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/12/GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh/GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh.json
- Aliases
- Published
- 2022-12-13T17:36:28Z
- Modified
- 2024-02-16T08:18:29.548770Z
- Summary
- Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah
- Details
-
Summary
Loofah
< 2.19.1contains 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.Mitigation
Upgrade to Loofah
>= 2.19.1.Severity
The Loofah maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1).
References
- CWE - CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (4.9)
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
Credit
This vulnerability was responsibly reported by @ooooooo-q (https://github.com/ooooooo-q).
- References
-
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23514
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/a6e0a1ab90675a17b1b2be189129d94139e4b143
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/CVE-2022-23514.yml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00011.html
Affected packages
RubyGems / loofah
Package
- Name
- loofah
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
-
Introduced0The exact introduced commit is unknownFixed2.19.1
Affected versions
0.*
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.2.2
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.4.5
0.4.6
0.4.7
1.*
1.0.0.beta.1
1.0.0
1.1.0
1.2.0
1.2.1
2.*
2.0.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.1.0.rc1
2.1.0.rc2
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.3.0
2.3.1
2.4.0
2.5.0
2.6.0
2.7.0
2.8.0
2.9.0
2.9.1
2.10.0
2.11.0
2.12.0
2.13.0
2.14.0
2.15.0
2.16.0
2.17.0
2.18.0
2.19.0