GHSA-c4rq-3m3g-8wgx: Nokogiri CSS selector tokenizer has regular expression backtracking
Nokogiri’s CSS selector tokenizer contains regular expressions whose construction may result in exponential regex backtracking on adversarial selectors. Three ReDoS vectors are addressed in this release:
- String-literal tokenization on certain unterminated quoted-string input.
- String-literal tokenization on a separate class of hex-escape-rich input.
- Identifier tokenization on hex-escape-rich input.
The public CSS selector methods that funnel through the affected tokenizer are Nokogiri::CSS.xpath_for, Node#css, Node#at_css, Searchable#search, and CSS::Parser#parse.
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