CVE-2022-24836: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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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.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8
- github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/e444525ef1634b675cd1cf52d39f4320ef0aecfd
- github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.13.4
- github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8
- groups.google.com/g/ruby-security-ann/c/vX7qSjsvWis/m/TJWN4oOKBwAJ?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24836
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