CVE-2021-41098

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE) in Nokogiri on JRuby

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Sep 27, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Sep 15, 2021

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Description

Nokogiri is a Rubygem providing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parsers with XPath and CSS selector support. In Nokogiri v1.12.4 and earlier, on JRuby only, the SAX parser resolves external entities by default. Users of Nokogiri on JRuby who parse untrusted documents using any of these classes are affected: Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Parse, Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::Parser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::Parser, Nokogiri::XML::SAX::PushParser, and Nokogiri::HTML4::SAX::PushParser or its alias Nokogiri::HTML::SAX::PushParser. JRuby users should upgrade to Nokogiri v1.12.5 or later to receive a patch for this issue. There are no workarounds available for v1.12.4 or earlier. CRuby users are not affected.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.07.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

ProductVersions
nokogirisparklemotion
  • < 1.12.5Affected

References

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