CVE-2023-50262: Denial of service caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG images

medium Affects dompdf/dompdf. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2023-12-13; advisory modified 2026-09-10.

Denial of service caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG images

Package: dompdf/dompdf Composer
Affected versions: <2.0.4
Fixed in: 2.0.4
Severity: medium CVSS 5.3
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (73.5th percentile)
Published: 2023-12-13
Source: osv.dev

References

CWE-20

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