CVE-2022-24836 (High) detected in nokogiri-1.11.7.gem

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CVE-2022-24836 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - nokogiri-1.11.7.gem

Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby. It provides a sensible, easy-to-understand API for reading, writing, modifying, and querying documents. It is fast and standards-compliant by relying on native parsers like libxml2 (C) and xerces (Java).

Library home page: https://rubygems.org/gems/nokogiri-1.11.7.gem

Dependency Hierarchy: - html-proofer-3.19.2.gem (Root Library) - nokogumbo-2.0.5.gem - :x: **nokogiri-1.11.7.gem** (Vulnerable Library)

Found in base branch: dev

Vulnerability Details

Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for Ruby. Nokogiri `< v1.13.4` contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents. Users are advised to upgrade to Nokogiri `>= 1.13.4`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Publish Date: 2022-04-11

URL: CVE-2022-24836

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics: - Exploitability Metrics: - Attack Vector: Network - Attack Complexity: Low - Privileges Required: None - User Interaction: None - Scope: Unchanged - Impact Metrics: - Confidentiality Impact: None - Integrity Impact: None - Availability Impact: High

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Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8

Release Date: 2022-04-11

Fix Resolution: nokogiri - 1.13.4

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