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GHSA-mrxw-mxhj-p664

HighCVSS 7.8 / 10
Published Mar 14, 2025·Last modified Feb 4, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Summary

Nokogiri v1.18.4 upgrades its dependency libxslt to v1.1.43.

libxslt v1.1.43 resolves:

  • CVE-2025-24855: Fix use-after-free of XPath context node
  • CVE-2024-55549: Fix UAF related to excluded namespaces

Impact

CVE-2025-24855

  • "Use-after-free due to xsltEvalXPathStringNs leaking xpathCtxt->node"
  • MITRE has rated this 7.8 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
  • Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/128
  • NVD entry: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24855

CVE-2024-55549

  • "Use-after-free related to excluded result prefixes"
  • MITRE has rated this 7.8 High CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
  • Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/issues/127
  • NVD entry: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55549
Risk Scores
Base Score
7.8

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability can affect other systems as well, not just the initial system. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
7.1

Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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