HIGH 7.5
GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8
Nokogiri Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Details
## Summary
Nokogiri `< v1.13.4` contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents.
## Mitigation
Upgrade to Nokogiri `>= 1.13.4`.
## Severity
The Nokogiri maintainers have evaluated this as [**High Severity** 7.5 (CVSS3.1)](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
## References
[CWE-1333](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html) Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
## Credit
This vulnerability was reported by HackerOne user ooooooo_q (ななおく).
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References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8 [WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24836 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/e444525ef1634b675cd1cf52d39f4320ef0aecfd [WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2022-24836.yml [WEB]
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.13.4 [WEB]
- https://groups.google.com/g/ruby-security-ann/c/vX7qSjsvWis/m/TJWN4oOKBwAJ?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer [WEB]
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00013.html [WEB]
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00018.html [WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DHCOWMA5PQTIQIMDENA7R2Y5BDYAIYM [WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OUPLBUZVM4WPFSXBEP2JS3R6LMKRTLFC [WEB]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XMDCWRQXJQ3TFSETPCEFMQ6RR6ME5UA3 [WEB]
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-29 [WEB]
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213532 [WEB]
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/23 [WEB]