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GHSA-GX8X-G87M-H5Q6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-04-11 21:38 – Updated: 2022-04-11 21:38
VLAI
Summary
Denial of Service (DoS) in Nokogiri on JRuby
Details

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
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "nokogiri"
      },
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
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              "fixed": "1.13.4"
            }
          ],
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
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    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-04-11T21:38:11Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "## Summary\n\nNokogiri `v1.13.4` updates the vendored `org.cyberneko.html` library to `1.9.22.noko2` which addresses [CVE-2022-24839](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv). That CVE is rated 7.5 (High Severity).\n\nSee [GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv) for more information.\n\nPlease note that this advisory only applies to the **JRuby** implementation of Nokogiri `\u003c 1.13.4`.\n\n\n## Mitigation\n\nUpgrade to Nokogiri `\u003e= 1.13.4`.\n\n\n## Impact\n\n### [CVE-2022-24839](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv) in nekohtml\n\n- **Severity**: High 7.5\n- **Type**: [CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption\n- **Description**: The fork of `org.cyberneko.html` used by Nokogiri (Rubygem) raises a `java.lang.OutOfMemoryError` exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup.\n- **See also**: [GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv)\n",
  "id": "GHSA-gx8x-g87m-h5q6",
  "modified": "2022-04-11T21:38:11Z",
  "published": "2022-04-11T21:38:11Z",
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-gx8x-g87m-h5q6"
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24839"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/commit/a800fce3b079def130ed42a408ff1d09f89e773d"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.13.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://groups.google.com/g/ruby-security-ann/c/vX7qSjsvWis/m/TJWN4oOKBwAJ?utm_medium=email\u0026utm_source=footer"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Denial of Service (DoS) in Nokogiri on JRuby"
}



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