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.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-c3jg-qh8m-j3h2 | CairoSVG: Quadratic-time DoS parsing a crafted SVG <path> |
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History
Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:30:00 +0000
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| 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. | |
| Title | CairoSVG: Quadratic-time DoS parsing a crafted SVG <path> | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-407 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-08T18:31:17.147Z
Reserved: 2026-10-07T21:07:54.987Z
Link: CVE-2026-107378
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-08T18:17:23.417
Modified: 2026-10-08T21:33:42.423
Link: CVE-2026-107378
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-08T21:15:13Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA