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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS0zcXgyLTZmNzgtdzJqMs4AA3v6
Denial of service caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG images
Summary
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, 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.
Details
php-svg-lib, when run in isolation, does not support SVG references for image
elements. An SVG document can, however, be referenced and Dompdf will run that reference through the same validation. 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 in the validation process by chaining references between two or more SVG images.
PoC
This following sources can be used to bypass validation provided by Dompdf:
recurse.html
<img src="one.svg">
one.svg
<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<image href="two.svg" />
</svg>
two.svg
<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<image href="one.svg" />
</svg>
Impact
When Dompdf parses the above 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.
Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3qx2-6f78-w2j2JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS0zcXgyLTZmNzgtdzJqMs4AA3v6
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: 5 months ago
Updated: 5 months ago
CVSS Score: 5.3
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Identifiers: GHSA-3qx2-6f78-w2j2, CVE-2023-50262
References:
- https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/security/advisories/GHSA-3qx2-6f78-w2j2
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50262
- https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/commit/41cbac16f3cf56affa49f06e8dae66d0eac2b593
- https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/blob/v2.0.3/src/Image/Cache.php#L136-L153
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/dompdf/dompdf/CVE-2023-50262.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3qx2-6f78-w2j2
Blast Radius: 23.0
Affected Packages
packagist:dompdf/dompdf
Dependent packages: 518Dependent repositories: 22,012
Downloads: 97,599,980 total
Affected Version Ranges: < 2.0.4
Fixed in: 2.0.4
All affected versions: 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.8.5, 0.8.6, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3
All unaffected versions: 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.7, 2.0.8