GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-xxx9-3xcr-gjj3 XML Injection in Xerces Java affects Nokogiri

MEDIUM Published 2022-04-11 Modified 2022-04-11 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
nokogiri
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-91
Reviewed
2022-04-11

Affected packages

• RubyGems nokogiri: < 1.13.4 → fixed in 1.13.4

Description

Summary Nokogiri v1.13.4 updates the vendored `xerces:xercesImpl` from 2.12.0 to 2.12.2, which addresses CVE-2022-23437. That CVE is scored as CVSS 6.5 "Medium" on the NVD record. Please note that this advisory only applies to the JRuby implementation of Nokogiri `= v1.13.4`. Impact CVE-2022-23437 in xerces-J • Severity: Medium • Type: CWE-91 XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection) • Description: There's a vulnerability within the Apache Xerces Java (XercesJ) XML parser when handling specially crafted XML document payloads. This causes, the XercesJ XML parser to wait in an infinite loop, which may sometimes consume system resources for prolonged duration. This vulnerability is present within XercesJ version 2.12.1 and the previous versions. • See also: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h65f-jvqw-m9fj

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-91 XML Injection weakness

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