CVE-2022-24836 (GCVE-0-2022-24836)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-11 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-03 12:03
VLAI
Title
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Nokogiri
Summary
Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for Ruby. Nokogiri `< v1.13.4` contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents. Users are advised to upgrade to Nokogiri `>= 1.13.4`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
sparklemotion nokogiri Affected: < 1.13.4
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  • 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.
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