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CairoSVG: Quadratic-time DoS parsing a crafted SVG

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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.

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CVE-2026-107378

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-107378

CairoSVG

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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[
  {
    "vendor": "Kozea",
    "product": "CairoSVG",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 2.9.1"
      }
    ]
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-107378

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