VDB
KO
HIGH 7.8

GHSA-mrxw-mxhj-p664

Nokogiri updates packaged libxslt to v1.1.43 to resolve multiple CVEs

Details

## Summary

Nokogiri v1.18.4 upgrades its dependency libxslt to [v1.1.43](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/releases/v1.1.43).

libxslt v1.1.43 resolves:

- CVE-2025-24855: Fix use-after-free of XPath context node - CVE-2024-55549: Fix UAF related to excluded namespaces

## Impact

### CVE-2025-24855

- "Use-after-free due to xsltEvalXPathStringNs leaking xpathCtxt->node" - MITRE has rated this 7.8 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H - Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/128 - NVD entry: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24855

### CVE-2024-55549

- "Use-after-free related to excluded result prefixes" - MITRE has rated this 7.8 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H - Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/127 - NVD entry: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55549

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Affected packages

RubyGems / nokogiri
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.18.4
Fix bundle update nokogiri

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