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.
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Remediation
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Tracking
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DLA |
DLA-3565-1 | ruby-loofah security update |
Debian DLA |
DLA-3901-1 | ruby-loofah security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2022-7500 | 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. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh | Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2025-11-03T21:45:53.018Z
Reserved: 2022-01-19T21:23:53.777Z
Link: CVE-2022-23514
Updated: 2025-11-03T21:45:53.018Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-12-14T14:15:10.477
Modified: 2025-11-03T22:15:55.973
Link: CVE-2022-23514
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Debian DLA
EUVD
Github GHSA