CVE-2022-23516

7.5 HIGH
Published: December 14, 2022 Modified: November 03, 2025

Description

Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah >= 2.2.0, < 2.19.1 uses recursion for sanitizing CDATA sections, making it susceptible to stack exhaustion and raising a SystemStackError exception. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption. This issue is patched in version 2.19.1. Users who are unable to upgrade may be able to mitigate this vulnerability by limiting the length of the strings that are sanitized.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-3x8r-x6xp-q4vm
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-3x8r-x6xp-q4vm
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

5 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
7.5 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.0%
10th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

loofah_project