CVE-2022-24836
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Nokogiri
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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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/e444525ef1634b675cd1cf52d39f4320ef0aecfd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DHCOWMA5PQTIQIMDENA7R2Y5BDYAIYM/
- 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-29
References (11)
CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
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