CVE-2018-14404 – nokogiri

Package

Manager: gem
Name: nokogiri
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <1.8.5

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.2363 pctl0.95773

Details

Nokogiri NULL Pointer Dereference A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the `xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval()` function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the `XPATH_OP_AND` or `XPATH_OP_OR` case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.

Metadata

Created: 2019-01-17T14:05:03Z
Modified: 2023-08-26T00:01:34Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/01/GHSA-6qvp-r6r3-9p7h/GHSA-6qvp-r6r3-9p7h.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-476"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-6qvp-r6r3-9p7h
Finding: F002
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