CVE-2022-23514

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

2%p76

Published

Dec 14, 2022 (Dec 14, 2022)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: loofah project
Products: loofah
Weakness: CWE-1333
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.7%)

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