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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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3565-1 ruby-loofah security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3901-1 ruby-loofah security update
EUVD 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 Github GHSA GHSA-486f-hjj9-9vhh Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Loofah
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Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-03T21:45:53.018Z

Reserved: 2022-01-19T21:23:53.777Z

Link: CVE-2022-23514

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-03T21:45:53.018Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-14T14:15:10.477

Modified: 2025-11-03T22:15:55.973

Link: CVE-2022-23514

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-23514 - Bugzilla

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