CVE-2023-50251: Denial of service caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG document

medium Affects phenx/php-svg-lib. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2023-12-13; advisory modified 2024-02-16.

Denial of service caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG document

Package: phenx/php-svg-lib Composer
Affected versions: <0.5.1
Fixed in: 0.5.1
Severity: medium CVSS 5.3
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (58.9th percentile)
Published: 2023-12-13
Source: osv.dev

References

CWE-674

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