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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-117540 EUVD-2026-110805GHSA-5fhv-8j9p-2v94

svg-sanitizer before 1.1.0 Quadratic CPU-Exhaustion DoS via PHP-Tag Stripping Loop

Published Oct 27, 2026 · Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

svg-sanitizer from 0.5.3 before 1.1.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in Sanitizer::sanitize() that repeatedly rescans the whole input while stripping PHP tags. Unauthenticated attackers can upload SVGs with many overlapping PHP tag openers and closers, forcing quadratic preg_replace passes that exhaust worker CPU for minutes.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
darylldoyle svg-sanitizer 0.5.3 – < 1.1.0 1.1.0

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