Out-of-bounds Write Affecting nokogiri package, versions <1.13.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.34% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-NOKOGIRI-2630623
  • published 12 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 11 Apr 2022
  • credit Tavis Ormandy

How to fix?

Upgrade nokogiri to version 1.13.4 or higher.

Overview

nokogiri is a gem for parsing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write via the zlib dependency which allows memory corruption when deflating if the input has many distant matches.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.5 high
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SUSE

8.1 high
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Red Hat

8.2 high