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GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv

org.nokogiri:nekohtml vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-24839

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.nokogiri:nekohtml < 1.9.22.noko2 1.9.22.noko2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

## Summary The fork of `org.cyberneko.html` used by Nokogiri (Rubygem) raises a `java.lang.OutOfMemoryError` exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup. ## Severity The 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). ## Mitigation Upgrade to `>= 1.9.22.noko2`. ## Credit This vulnerability was reported by [이형관 (windshock)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/windshock/). ## References [CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ## Notes The upstream library `org.cyberneko.html` is no longer maintained. Nokogiri uses its own fork of this library located at https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml and this CVE applies only to that fork. Other forks of nekohtml may have a similar vulnerability.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.