svg-sanitizer: Mixed-case xlink:HrEf skips the `` nesting-DoS check in Resolver::processReferences

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-107381",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "svg-sanitizer: Mixed-case xlink:HrEf skips the `` nesting-DoS check in Resolver::processReferences",
    "summary": "svg-sanitizer is a PHP SVG/XML sanitizer. Prior to 1.0.0, Resolver::processReferences() in src/ElementReference/Resolver.php builds the SVG reference graph with a case-sensitive href attribute predicate before cleanHrefAttributes() normalizes mixed-case names. An attacker can provide xlink:HrEf on nested elements so the graph omits those references, after which the sanitizer converts the attribute to canonical xlink:href and returns the live nesting structure without applying the useNestingLimit protection. A consuming application that renders the sanitized SVG can therefore be exposed to the resource exhaustion that control is designed to prevent. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.0.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-107381",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:50.638775800Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer/releases/tag/1.0.0",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/107xxx/CVE-2026-107381.json",
        "https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-m9xh-6747-9r6f",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-107381",
        "https://github.com/darylldoyle/svg-sanitizer/commit/2dff6628314de8519155b7feb218bbe132785757"
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  "published_at": "2026-10-14T14:53:40.415+00:00"
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