GHSA-gx8x-g87m-h5q6
Denial of Service (DoS) in Nokogiri on JRuby
Details
## Summary
Nokogiri `v1.13.4` updates the vendored `org.cyberneko.html` library to `1.9.22.noko2` which addresses [CVE-2022-24839](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv). That CVE is rated 7.5 (High Severity).
See [GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv) for more information.
Please note that this advisory only applies to the **JRuby** implementation of Nokogiri `< 1.13.4`.
## Mitigation
Upgrade to Nokogiri `>= 1.13.4`.
## Impact
### [CVE-2022-24839](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv) in nekohtml
- **Severity**: High 7.5 - **Type**: [CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption - **Description**: The fork of `org.cyberneko.html` used by Nokogiri (Rubygem) raises a `java.lang.OutOfMemoryError` exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup. - **See also**: [GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv](https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv)
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References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv [WEB]
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-gx8x-g87m-h5q6 [WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24839 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/commit/a800fce3b079def130ed42a408ff1d09f89e773d [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]