CairoSVG is an SVG converter based on Cairo, a 2D graphics library. Prior to Kozea/CairoSVG has exponential denial of service via recursive <use> element amplification in cairosvg/defs.py. This causes CPU exhaustion from a small input.
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| Description | CairoSVG is an SVG converter based on Cairo, a 2D graphics library. Prior to Kozea/CairoSVG has exponential denial of service via recursive <use> element amplification in cairosvg/defs.py. This causes CPU exhaustion from a small input. | |
| Title | CairoSVG vulnerable to Exponential DoS via recursive <use> element amplification | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-03-13T19:38:43.990Z
Updated: 2026-03-13T19:38:43.990Z
Reserved: 2026-03-09T21:59:02.689Z
Link: CVE-2026-31899
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-13T19:54:38.190
Modified: 2026-03-13T19:54:38.190
Link: CVE-2026-31899
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