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