Description
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Prior to 2.25.3, the Loofah HTML5 sanitizer checks href and xlink:href on elements in SVG_ALLOW_LOCAL_HREF with a regular expression whose line anchor and newline-matching whitespace cause an all-whitespace value to be rescanned from every line start. An attacker can submit an SVG reference element with a long multiline-whitespace attribute and consume CPU quadratically during sanitization. CRuby 3.1 and earlier and JRuby are affected, while CRuby 3.2 and later uses linear-time regular-expression matching. The default safelist reaches the vulnerable check without a configuration change. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| flavorjones | loofah | < 2.25.3 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | ruby-loofah | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | loofah | < 2.25.3 | 2.25.3 | GHSA-mf2j-8f84-cc9q |