NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting nokogiri package, versions <1.13.9
Threat Intelligence
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- published29 Aug 2026
- disclosed25 Aug 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 25 Aug 2026
NewCVE-2022-50998 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade nokogiri to version 1.13.9 or higher.
Overview
nokogiri is a gem for parsing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the XML parsing process. An attacker can cause denial of service or memory corruption by submitting specially crafted XML input that triggers entity reference cycles or integer overflows.