BREW-MIKUTTER-GHSA-XXX9-… (GHSA-XXX9-3XCR-GJJ3)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:14 – Updated: 2026-10-07 22:55 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
XML Injection in Xerces Java affects Nokogiri
Details

Summary

Nokogiri v1.13.4 updates the vendored xerces:xercesImpl from 2.12.0 to 2.12.2, which addresses CVE-2022-23437. That CVE is scored as CVSS 6.5 "Medium" on the NVD record.

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

Mitigation

Upgrade to Nokogiri >= v1.13.4.

Impact

CVE-2022-23437 in xerces-J

  • Severity: Medium
  • Type: CWE-91 XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)
  • Description: There's a vulnerability within the Apache Xerces Java (XercesJ) XML parser when handling specially crafted XML document payloads. This causes, the XercesJ XML parser to wait in an infinite loop, which may sometimes consume system resources for prolonged duration. This vulnerability is present within XercesJ version 2.12.1 and the previous versions.
  • See also: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h65f-jvqw-m9fj
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
To clipboard 

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "fix": "bump",
        "range_state": "fixed",
        "resource": "nokogiri",
        "resource_purl": "pkg:gem/nokogiri@1.16.3",
        "upstream_fixed_in": "1.13.4"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Homebrew",
        "name": "mikutter",
        "purl": "pkg:brew/mikutter"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.4.6"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "5.0.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "matched",
    "strategy": "registry",
    "upstream_evidence": [
      {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "key": "pkg:gem/nokogiri@1.16.3",
        "name": "nokogiri",
        "resource": "nokogiri",
        "strategy": "registry",
        "subject_version": "1.16.3"
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "## Summary\n\nNokogiri v1.13.4 updates the vendored `xerces:xercesImpl` from 2.12.0 to 2.12.2, which addresses [CVE-2022-23437](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23437). That CVE is scored as CVSS 6.5 \"Medium\" on the NVD record.\n\nPlease note that this advisory only applies to the **JRuby** implementation of Nokogiri `\u003c 1.13.4`.\n\n## Mitigation\n\nUpgrade to Nokogiri `\u003e= v1.13.4`.\n\n## Impact\n\n### [CVE-2022-23437](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23437) in xerces-J\n\n- **Severity**: Medium\n- **Type**: [CWE-91](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/91.html) XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)\n- **Description**: There\u0027s a vulnerability within the Apache Xerces Java (XercesJ) XML parser when handling specially crafted XML document payloads. This causes, the XercesJ XML parser to wait in an infinite loop, which may sometimes consume system resources for prolonged duration. This vulnerability is present within XercesJ version 2.12.1 and the previous versions.\n- **See also**: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h65f-jvqw-m9fj\n\n",
  "id": "BREW-mikutter-GHSA-xxx9-3xcr-gjj3",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T22:55:10Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T17:14:10Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-xxx9-3xcr-gjj3"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23437"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h65f-jvqw-m9fj"
    },
    {
      "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": "1.7.3",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "XML Injection in Xerces Java affects Nokogiri",
  "upstream": [
    "GHSA-xxx9-3xcr-gjj3"
  ]
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.




Drag nodes to arrange them. Double-click a related vulnerability to open it, or a source to visit its link. The Physics button on the left tunes the layout and the simulation; the legend at the bottom left hides or shows nodes by kind and by sighting type.

Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline

Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

JSON

Loading timeline…




    Related by attack behaviour

    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.