High
Security advisory
A vulnerability was discovered in IS-SVG version 2.1.0 to 4.2.2 and below where a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) occurs if the application is provided and checks a crafted invalid SVG string.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-29059
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerability was discovered in IS-SVG version 2.1.0 to 4.2.2 and below where a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) occurs if the application is provided and checks a crafted invalid SVG string.
osv:CVE-2021-29059
Complete source record
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