GHSA-2rr5-8q37-2w7h
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE) in Nokogiri on JRuby
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### 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.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-2rr5-8q37-2w7h
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41098
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/5bf729ff3cc84709ee3c3248c981584088bf9f6d
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2021-41098.yml
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri