ghsa-486f-hjj9-9vhh
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-12-13 17:36
Modified
2022-12-13 17:36
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah
Details

Summary

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.

Mitigation

Upgrade to Loofah >= 2.19.1.

Severity

The Loofah maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1).

References

Credit

This vulnerability was responsibly reported by @ooooooo-q (https://github.com/ooooooo-q).

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "loofah"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.19.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-23514"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-12-13T17:36:28Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-12-14T14:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "## Summary\n\nLoofah `\u003c 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.\n\n\n## Mitigation\n\nUpgrade to Loofah `\u003e= 2.19.1`.\n\n\n## Severity\n\nThe Loofah maintainers have evaluated this as [High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1)](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).\n\n\n## References\n\n- [CWE - CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (4.9)](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html)\n- https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163\n\n\n## Credit\n\nThis vulnerability was responsibly reported by @ooooooo-q (https://github.com/ooooooo-q).\n",
  "id": "GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh",
  "modified": "2022-12-13T17:36:28Z",
  "published": "2022-12-13T17:36:28Z",
  "references": [
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/a6e0a1ab90675a17b1b2be189129d94139e4b143"
    },
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/CVE-2022-23514.yml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00011.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah"
}


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