CVE-2022-24836

high

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

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XMDCWRQXJQ3TFSETPCEFMQ6RR6ME5UA3/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OUPLBUZVM4WPFSXBEP2JS3R6LMKRTLFC/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6DHCOWMA5PQTIQIMDENA7R2Y5BDYAIYM/

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2022-04-11

Updated: 2022-08-15

Type: CWE-400

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH