Uncontrolled Recursion in php-svg-lib - CVE-2023-50251
Published: January 30, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU85893
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-50251
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite recursion when parsing SVG document. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Affected software
php-svg-lib
Debian Linux
snipe-it
php-dompdf-svg-lib (Debian package)
Debian Linux
snipe-it
php-dompdf-svg-lib (Debian package)
How to mitigate CVE-2023-50251
Install updates from vendor's website.
php-svg-lib - update to 0.5.1
snipe-it - update to 6.3.0
php-dompdf-svg-lib (Debian package) - update to 0.5.0-3+deb12u1
snipe-it - update to 6.3.0
php-dompdf-svg-lib (Debian package) - update to 0.5.0-3+deb12u1