Vulnerability identifier: #VU69583
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID:
CWE-ID:
CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Network
Exploit availability: No
Vulnerable software:
Nokogiri
Universal components / Libraries /
Programming Languages & Components
Vendor: nokogiri.org
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input passed into the XML and HTML4 SAX parsers. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Mitigation
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versions
Nokogiri: 1.4.4 - 1.13.5
External links
http://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.13.6
http://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-xh29-r2w5-wx8m
http://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/db05ba9a1bd4b90aa6c76742cf6102a7c7297267
http://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-031_GHSL-2022-032_Nokogiri/
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-29
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.