High severity · published Oct 8, 2026
CVE-2026-107378
CairoSVG: Quadratic-time DoS parsing a crafted SVG <path>
8.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
CairoSVG is an SVG converter based on Cairo, a 2D graphics library. Prior to 2.9.1, rendering an attacker-controlled SVG with a path containing many segments can cause quadratic CPU consumption in cairosvg/path.py. The path tokenizer repeatedly slices and rescans the remaining path data, while draw_markers drains node.vertices with node.vertices.pop(0), causing repeated linear-time work. The svg2png, svg2pdf, and svg2ps APIs reach these operations during ordinary rendering, allowing a sub-megabyte SVG to consume substantial CPU and deny service to a rendering application. This issue is fixed in version 2.9.1.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 32% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CA
CairoSVG · Kozea
< 2.9.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-107378
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-107378
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/security/advisories/GHSA-c3jg-qh8m-j3h2
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/commit/9d63f049f9988d0ddda3eb94564ac3a50a286523
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/commit/a4d585eb374724b79676e9cceaa9e9a1a4358565
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/releases/tag/2.9.1
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