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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS05ODQ5LXA3amMtOXJtds4AAz_r

org.nokogiri:nekohtml vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Summary

The fork of org.cyberneko.html used by Nokogiri (Rubygem) raises a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup.

Severity

The maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1).

Mitigation

Upgrade to >= 1.9.22.noko2.

Credit

This vulnerability was reported by 이형관 (windshock).

References

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Notes

The upstream library org.cyberneko.html is no longer maintained. Nokogiri uses its own fork of this library located at https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml and this CVE applies only to that fork. Other forks of nekohtml may have a similar vulnerability.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS05ODQ5LXA3amMtOXJtds4AAz_r
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 1 year ago
Updated: about 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv, CVE-2022-24839
References:

• https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24839
• https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/commit/a800fce3b079def130ed42a408ff1d09f89e773d
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv

Repository: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml
Blast Radius: 3.6

Affected Packages