CVE-2022-24836

Description

Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for Ruby. Nokogiri `< v1.13.4` contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents. Users are advised to upgrade to Nokogiri `>= 1.13.4`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

References

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213532

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-29

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XMDCWRQXJQ3TFSETPCEFMQ6RR6ME5UA3/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OUPLBUZVM4WPFSXBEP2JS3R6LMKRTLFC/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DHCOWMA5PQTIQIMDENA7R2Y5BDYAIYM/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00018.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00013.html

https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8

https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/e444525ef1634b675cd1cf52d39f4320ef0aecfd

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/23

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3