Security Advisory

CVE-2023-50251

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-12-12 20:37:23
Last updated 2025-05-22 18:38:53
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

php-svg-lib is an SVG file parsing / rendering library. Prior to version 0.5.1, when parsing the attributes passed to a `use` tag inside an svg document, an attacker can cause the system to go to an infinite recursion. Depending on the system configuration and attack pattern this could exhaust the memory available to the executing process and/or to the server itself. An attacker sending multiple request to a system to render the above payload can potentially cause resource exhaustion to the point that the system is unable to handle incoming request. Version 0.5.1 contains a patch for this issue.