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.
https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/security/advisories/GHSA-c3jg-qh8m-j3h2
https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/releases/tag/2.9.1
https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/commit/a4d585eb374724b79676e9cceaa9e9a1a4358565
https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/commit/9d63f049f9988d0ddda3eb94564ac3a50a286523
Published: 2026-10-08
Updated: 2026-10-08
Base Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Severity: High