VDB
KO
HIGH 7.5

GHSA-2rr5-8q37-2w7h

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE) in Nokogiri on JRuby

Details

### Severity

The Nokogiri maintainers have evaluated this as [**High Severity** 7.5 (CVSS3.0)](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:H/RL:O/RC:C/MAV:N/MAC:L) for JRuby users. (This security advisory does not apply to CRuby users.)

### Impact

In Nokogiri v1.12.4 and earlier, **on JRuby only**, the SAX parser resolves external entities by default.

Users of Nokogiri on JRuby who parse untrusted documents using any of these classes are affected:

- Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Parser - Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::Parser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::Parser - Nokogiri::XML::SAX::PushParser - Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::PushParser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::PushParser

### Mitigation

JRuby users should upgrade to Nokogiri v1.12.5 or later. There are no workarounds available for v1.12.4 or earlier.

CRuby users are not affected.

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Affected packages

RubyGems / nokogiri
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.12.5
Fix bundle update nokogiri

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