High severity · published Dec 13, 2023
CVE-2023-50262
Dompdf possible DoS caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG images
7.5
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter for PHP. When parsing SVG images Dompdf performs an initial validation to ensure that paths within the SVG are allowed. One of the validations is that the SVG document does not reference itself. However, prior to version 2.0.4, a recursive chained using two or more SVG documents is not correctly validated. Depending on the system configuration and attack pattern this could exhaust the memory available to the executing process and/or to the server itself.
php-svg-lib, when run in isolation, does not support SVG references for `image` elements. However, when used in combination with Dompdf, php-svg-lib will process SVG images referenced by an `image` element. Dompdf currently includes validation to prevent self-referential `image` references, but a chained reference is not checked. A malicious actor may thus trigger infinite recursion by chaining references between two or more SVG images.
When Dompdf parses a malicious payload, it will crash due after exceeding the allowed execution time or memory usage. An attacker sending multiple request to a system can potentially cause resource exhaustion to the point that the system is unable to handle incoming request.
Version 2.0.4 contains a fix for this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DO
dompdf · dompdf
< 2.0.4 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50262
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-50262
Product
https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/blob/v2.0.3/src/Image/Cache.php#L136-L153
Patch
https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/commit/41cbac16f3cf56affa49f06e8dae66d0eac2b593
Exploit
https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/security/advisories/GHSA-3qx2-6f78-w2j2
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