CVE-2022-23516

HIGH

Loofah < 2.19.1 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 11.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (2)
loofah_project/loofah 2.2.0 - 2.19.1
rubygems/loofah 2.2.0 - 2.19.1RubyGems
Published Dec 14, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026