PT-2022-4890 · Nokogiri+6 · Nokogiri+6
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Published
2022-04-10
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Updated
2026-03-13
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CVE-2022-24836
CVSS v2.0
7.8
High
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Nokogiri versions prior to 1.13.4
Description
The issue is related to an inefficient regular expression in the Nokogiri library, which can lead to excessive backtracking when detecting encoding in HTML documents. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Recommendations
Upgrade to Nokogiri version 1.13.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the vulnerable regular expression function until a patch is available.
Exploit
Fix
DoS
Resource Exhaustion
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Alt Linux
Astra Linux
Apple Macos
Nokogiri
Red Os
Rocky Linux
Suse