# CVE-2026-107378: CairoSVG: Quadratic-time DoS parsing a crafted SVG \<path\>

- Also known as: GHSA-C3JG-QH8M-J3H2, PYSEC-2026-4204
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.9.1
- Published: 2026-10-08 · Updated: 2026-10-08

## Affected

- Kozea CairoSVG: fixed in 2.9.1
- cairosvg (PyPI): fixed in 2.9.1

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Kozea CairoSVG, cairosvg, upgrade to a fixed version (2.9.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/security/advisories/GHSA-c3jg-qh8m-j3h2
- https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/commit/9d63f049f9988d0ddda3eb94564ac3a50a286523
- https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/commit/a4d585eb374724b79676e9cceaa9e9a1a4358565
- https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/releases/tag/2.9.1

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