ghsa-3qx2-6f78-w2j2
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-12-13 23:09
Modified
2023-12-13 23:09
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
Denial of service caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG images
Details

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.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Packagist",
        "name": "dompdf/dompdf"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.0.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-50262"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-12-13T23:09:04Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-12-13T21:15:09Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "### Summary\nWhen 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](https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/blob/v2.0.3/src/Image/Cache.php#L136-L153). 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.\n\n### Details\nphp-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.\n\n### PoC\n\nThis following sources can be used to bypass validation provided by Dompdf:\n\nrecurse.html\n```\n\u003cimg src=\"one.svg\"\u003e\n```\n\none.svg\n```\n\u003csvg width=\"200\" height=\"200\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"\u003e\n  \u003cimage href=\"two.svg\" /\u003e\n\u003c/svg\u003e\n```\n\ntwo.svg\n```\n\u003csvg width=\"200\" height=\"200\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"\u003e\n  \u003cimage href=\"one.svg\" /\u003e\n\u003c/svg\u003e\n```\n\n### Impact\n\nWhen 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.",
  "id": "GHSA-3qx2-6f78-w2j2",
  "modified": "2023-12-13T23:09:04Z",
  "published": "2023-12-13T23:09:04Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/security/advisories/GHSA-3qx2-6f78-w2j2"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50262"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/commit/41cbac16f3cf56affa49f06e8dae66d0eac2b593"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/dompdf/dompdf/CVE-2023-50262.yaml"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/blob/v2.0.3/src/Image/Cache.php#L136-L153"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Denial of service caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG images"
}


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