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CVE-2022-23514

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2022-12-14 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 Platforms

Loofah Project Loofah

Weakness Type

CWE-1333

References