Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-24836
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/e444525ef1634b675cd1cf52d39f4320ef0aecfd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00013.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-29
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00018.html
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213532
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/23
- 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/XMDCWRQXJQ3TFSETPCEFMQ6RR6ME5UA3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DHCOWMA5PQTIQIMDENA7R2Y5BDYAIYM/