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Denial of Service (DoS) in Nokogiri on JRuby

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 11, 2022 in sparklemotion/nokogiri • Updated Jan 11, 2023

Package

bundler nokogiri (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 1.13.4

Patched versions

1.13.4

Description

Summary

Nokogiri v1.13.4 updates the vendored org.cyberneko.html library to 1.9.22.noko2 which addresses CVE-2022-24839. That CVE is rated 7.5 (High Severity).

See GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv for more information.

Please note that this advisory only applies to the JRuby implementation of Nokogiri < 1.13.4.

Mitigation

Upgrade to Nokogiri >= 1.13.4.

Impact

CVE-2022-24839 in nekohtml

  • Severity: High 7.5
  • Type: CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • Description: The fork of org.cyberneko.html used by Nokogiri (Rubygem) raises a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup.
  • See also: GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv

References

@flavorjones flavorjones published to sparklemotion/nokogiri Apr 11, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 11, 2022
Reviewed Apr 11, 2022
Last updated Jan 11, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-gx8x-g87m-h5q6

Source code

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