CVE-2019-20446 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNOME librsvg, affecting versions prior to 2.46.2, where a specially crafted SVG file with nested patterns can cause exponential growth in rendered objects, leading to system resource exhaustion. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) and can be triggered remotely (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), resulting in high availability impact (A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.40.21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnome:librsvg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.42.0, < 2.42.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnome:librsvg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.44.0, < 2.44.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnome:librsvg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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