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DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23516

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23516 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13ruby-loofah0, 0, 0
Debian:14ruby-loofah0, 0, 0
Debian:12ruby-loofah0, 0, 0
Debian:11ruby-loofah0, 2.7.0+dfsg, *

Timeline

  • Dec 14, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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