#VU70328 Resource exhaustion in Loofah - CVE-2022-23514
Published: December 14, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU70328
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23514
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Loofah
Loofah
Software vendor:
Mike Dalessio
Mike Dalessio
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing certain SVG attributes. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted SVG file to the application and consume excessive CPU resources, causing a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.