Improper authorization control for web services In nokogiri

Description

Nokogiri vulnerable to libxslt protection mechanism bypass A dependency of Nokogiri, libxslt through 1.1.33 allows bypass of a protection mechanism because callers of xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite permit access even upon receiving a -1 error code. xsltCheckRead can return -1 for a crafted URL that is not actually invalid and is subsequently loaded.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Package
Affected version
Patched versions

1-10 of 27

10

References

1. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/18922. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/pull/18983. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/fe034aedcc59b566740567d621843731686676b94. https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2019-11068.yml5. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/blob/f7aa3b0b29d6fe5fafe93dacd9b96b6b3d16b7ec/CHANGELOG.md?plain=1#L8266. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/e03553605b45c88f0b4b2980adfbbb8f6fca2fd67. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/36TEYN37XCCKN2XUMRTBBW67BPNMSW4K8. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GCOAX2IHUMKCM3ILHTMGLHCDSBTLP2JU9. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SK4YNISS22MJY22YX5I6V2U63QZAUEHA10. https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191017-000111. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3947-112. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3947-213. https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html14. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00048.html15. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00052.html16. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00053.html17. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00025.html18. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00001.html19. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/22/120. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/23/5