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GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8
No affected components available
Summary
Nokogiri < v1.13.4 contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents.
Mitigation
Upgrade to Nokogiri >= 1.13.4.
Severity
The Nokogiri maintainers have evaluated this as High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1).
References
CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Credit
This vulnerability was reported by HackerOne user ooooooo_q (ななおく).
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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