CVE-2026-117540 svg-sanitizer - Denial of Service

svg-sanitizer > 0.5.3 < 1.1.0 contains a denial of service caused by repeated rescanning in Sanitizer::sanitize() while stripping PHP tags, letting unauthenticated attackers exhaust CPU by uploading crafted SVGs, exploit requires no authentication.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Not required
EPSS
0.35% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Denial of Service
Impact
Denial Of Service
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
27 October 2026
Updated
29 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-407

Vendor fix

Update to version 1.1.0 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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