CVE-2022-24836 (High) detected in nokogiri-1.8.5.gem

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CVE-2022-24836 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - nokogiri-1.8.5.gem

Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser. Among Nokogiri's many features is the ability to search documents via XPath or CSS3 selectors.

Library home page: https://rubygems.org/gems/nokogiri-1.8.5.gem

Dependency Hierarchy:

• foodcritic-4.0.0.gem (Root Library)
  • ❌ nokogiri-1.8.5.gem (Vulnerable Library)

Found in base branch: master

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

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8

Release Date: 2022-04-11

Fix Resolution: nokogiri - 1.13.4