Inefficient regular expression complexity in TCPDF - CVE-2024-22641
Published: October 28, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU99356
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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-2024-22641
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Nicola Asuni
Affected software:
TCPDF
TCPDF
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when parsing untrusted SVG files. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted SVG file to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-22641
Install update from vendor's website.